The U.S. Senate this Thursday approved the appointment of Katanji Brown Jackson, who was elected by President Joe Biden to the Supreme Court and who became the first African-American woman to reach the Supreme Court in 232 years of history.
Jackson, popularly known as “KBJ”, passed the Senate test with 53 votes: all 50 Democrats and 3 moderate Republicans (Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkovsky of Alaska, and Mitt Romney of Utah). The other 47 Republican senators were against.
The vote took longer than expected as Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul took more than 15 minutes to get to the floor to cast his ballot, which was against Jackson. According to the White House, Jackson and Biden watched the vote from Roosevelt’s room in the White House.
The session was chaired by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, who serves as President of the Senate, and who made history by becoming the first African-American and the first American of Indian or Asian descent to reach the U.S. Vice Presidency. Voting results will erupt with a smile and an automatic hemicycle.
“A day that inspires”
The confirmation in Jackson Senate, which has been a judge in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals since last year, was accepted with conviction because only Democrats had the required simple majority.
“This is a wonderful day, this is a day full of joy, this is a day that inspires,” Sen. Democrat leader Chuck Schumer said before the vote, and he was clearly happy.
Sumer invented pictures of American children who would soon be able to open books at school and be inspired by the sight of an African-American woman sitting in the Supreme Court.
Jackson’s coming to the Supreme Court will not change his ideological structure, as a judge of six Conservative leanings and three progressive judges, he leans more to the right than at any time since the 1930s.
Jackson, however, has a different experience from other judges. For example, he will be the first judge to have ombudsman experience for people with limited resources.
Jackson, a 51-year-old daughter of public school teachers, also worked with the U.S. Penitentiary Commission to reduce sentences for federal drug offenses, including crack cocaine, which led to her release from at least 1,800 inmates and reduced sentences to 12,000.
Jackson will replace Progressive Judge Stephen Breyer in the Supreme Court, who has said he intends to resign when the trial ends in June or July.
Source: El Diario
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