Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Appointment Ends 233 Years of White Male Majority
“I arise carrying with me the gifts my ancestors gave me. I am the dream and hope of the slave. Ketanji Brown Jackson recited one of the most powerful verses of Maya Angelou’s famous poem ‘Still I Rise’ as she was elected to the Supreme Court of the United States. A whole statement of intent from which she becomes the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court since Thursday. A court in the eye of the hurricane for some recent highly controversial rulings, such as the ruling that no longer considered abortion a constitutionally guaranteed right.
Jackson’s appointment is doubly historic. not only is she the first black woman to hold a seat as magistrate. His arrival also ends 232 years of a majority of white male magistrates. “Our children are clearer than ever that anything is possible,” he declared jubilantly after his swearing-in ceremony. Of course, his arrival does not change the ideological balance. As a legacy of the Trump administration, there will remain six conservative judges and three progressive judges, including Jackson himself.
The daughter of educators, she was born in Washington DC in 1970 and raised in Miami. He graduated from the prestigious Harvard University in 1996. In 1999, he began working for liberal judge Stephen Breyer, his alma mater, whom he has just replaced. She has also served as a judge on the influential District of Columbia Court of Appeals and has worked in the private sector.
He is a believer and a family man. She has two daughters: Talia, 21, and Leila, 17. Her husband, Patrick, has been a great support throughout her professional career. When he was sworn in, he, to whom he has been married for 26 years, was in possession of the two copies of the Bible on which he was sworn.
Jackson’s arrival on the Supreme Court was an electoral pledge from Joe Biden himself — it’s his first Supreme Court appointment — in his stated goal of making the court more like the United States. From this Thursday it will be a little more. Next to her there is another black and a Latino. Of the nine members of the body, four are female, more than ever in history. “It’s a big step forward for our nation, for all the young black women who now see themselves reflected in our highest court,” said Biden, flanked by Jackson and Vice President Kamala Harris, also the first black woman to serve in office.
Not a few analysts close to the Democratic Party, however, have received the news with some suspicion. It is defined as ‘original’, that is, it believes in the original draft of the Constitution, which dates back to 1776. “When you interpret the Constitution, you look at the text at the time of its creation and what was the meaning . I see it as a limitation of my own authority,” he has confirmed.
Jackson arrives at the Supreme Court amid a major controversy over some of the magistrates’ latest rulings, such as the decision to no longer consider abortion a constitutionally guaranteed right or the extension of citizens’ right to bear arms.
Source: La Verdad
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