Senate confirms first Black woman to US Supreme Court
ebar.comIn a historic session April 7 presided over by the first Black female vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, the U.S.
Senate voted 53-47 in favor of confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination as the first Black woman associate justice to the U.S.
Supreme Court.The White House noted that Jackson joined President Joe Biden and other senior White House staff in the Roosevelt Room to watch the results of the Senate vote on her nomination to the Supreme Court.On Friday, the president, the vice president, and Jackson will deliver remarks at the White House on the Senate's historic, bipartisan confirmation of Jackson's nomination to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
Three Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Mitt Romney of Utah joined all 50 Democrats in voting for Jackson.LGBTQ organizations praised the confirmation vote."Today's vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as an associate justice of the U.S.
