Ketanji Brown Jackson

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson won support from all Democrats and a handful of Republicans in her Senate confirmation vote Thursday.

Summarizing her approach to the law, Jackson said that she had a “methodology” to decide case but not an overarching philosophy. The justices meet in September to sort through hundreds or thousands of petitions and select the cases they will hear. And the White House and key Democratic senators kept in close touch with the Republican swing votes to manage any concerns that arose. Even though Jackson would join the court as it starts its summer recess, she would likely move quickly to organize her chambers and hire personnel. “Tough questions about a federal judge’s own rulings and statements are the definition of fair game.” Calling Jackson a “liberal activist,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday said the hearings had, in his view, only heightened conservatives’ concerns about her record. To three Republican senators, the narrative that Jackson was a partisan extremist did not ring true. “Nothing can steal the joy of this moment.” Many senators had anticipated a relatively sedate confirmation process: Jackson is replacing a fellow liberal in Breyer, meaning her confirmation would not significantly affect the court’s 6-3 conservative tilt. Democrats’ jubilation has also been accompanied by a measure of anger at the rhetoric some Republicans employed in attacking Jackson’s nomination, aimed at stoking GOP campaign attacks on Democrats as being soft on crime and indulgent of radical views on race and gender. Amid the attacks, Jackson largely kept her composure during two consecutive days of marathon hearings, earning plaudits from Republicans and Democrats. Jackson’s tally is likely to fall well short of those earned by previous trailblazing nominees, such as Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice, who was confirmed 69-11 in 1967, or Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman, who was confirmed 99-0 in 1981.

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“They are in the driver’s seat of today’s Republican party, as much as the establishment wants to deny that,” Setmayer said. Or you are a Senator who protects children and votes NO to KJB!” “It was one thing to work in the Senate and to watch traditionally conservative senators like Chuck Grassley start spouting Tea Party lines in 2009, 2010,” Manley said. “He did it with John McCain. He did it again with Donald Trump. And now he’s doing it with the Maga/QAnon base in order to maintain relevancy.” He needs to have a host in order to thrive,” said Tara Setmayer, a former House Republican communications adviser who left the party in 2020. “[I]t might be time for Joe Biden to let us know what Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT score was … It would seem like Americans in a democracy have a right to know.”

Texas' U.S. senators have acknowledged the historical nature of Jackson's nomination but said ahead of their votes that they believe her ideology could be ...

Democrats on and off the committee accused Cruz — who has ambitions to run for president again — of performing for the cameras throughout his televised questioning. Cornyn’s main critique of Jackson that led to his “no” vote stemmed from his concern that she would legislate from the bench. “My vote against Judge Jackson is not a rebuke of her legal knowledge, her experience or her character,” Cornyn said. Even with Jackson’s position secured, the high court’s makeup will remain heavily favorable to conservatives with a 6-3 swing toward justices nominated by Republican presidents. Democrats continually pressed for Republicans to support the nominee. Both Cruz and Cornyn sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which held a multiday marathon hearing with one-to-one questioning of Jackson in March. If you look at her record, I believe it demonstrates that Judge Jackson — if she is confirmed — will be the single most liberal Supreme Court justice ever to serve on the Supreme Court.” Jackson’s confirmation comes during a politically charged moment that has seen renewed scrutiny over the roles race and gender play in American society — themes that outlined some of the questions she faced during her nomination process. Jackson’s confirmation was mostly shored up from the start. Despite Cruz and other Republicans’ attempts to paint her as soft on crime, fact checkers and law experts across the country have said that her sentencing record is mainstream. Texas’ U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz voted against her nomination, joining a near-party-line vote of 53-47. “If you look at her substantive record, it is far out of the mainstream,” Cruz said Wednesday on the Senate floor.

The Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice ...

“You could try and create a straw man here, but it does not hold,” said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker at the committee’s vote earlier this week. She has pledged to sit out the court’s consideration of Harvard’s admissions program since she is a member of its board of overseers. She will join a court on which no one is yet 75, the first time that has happened in nearly 30 years. It was an attempted reset from Trump’s presidency, when Democrats vociferously opposed the three nominees, and from the end of President Barack Obama’s, when Republicans blocked nominee Merrick Garland from getting a vote. During the four days of Senate hearings last month, Jackson spoke of her parents’ struggles through racial segregation and said her “path was clearer” than theirs as a Black American after the enactment of civil rights laws. She will join three other women, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan Amy Coney Barrett – meaning that four of the nine justices will be women for the first time in history.

En una votación histórica, el Senado de EE.UU. confirmó a la jueza Ketanji Brown Jackson para servir en la Corte Suprema. Será la primera mujer negra que ...

Jackson enfatizó su preocupación por la seguridad pública y el estado de derecho, como jueza y estadounidense. Varios senadores demócratas comenzaron a conversar con algunos miembros del Grupo Legislativo Negro del Congreso que estaban en la Cámara para observar la votación. Debido a eso, la votación avanzó rápidamente al principio, pero luego se mantuvo abierta durante algún tiempo cuando quedó claro que el senador republicano Rand Paul de Kentucky era el único que no había votado. Schumer continuó: "En los 233 años de historia de la Corte Suprema, nunca, nunca una mujer negra ha tenido el título de juez. Ahora bien, la confirmación de Jackson no cambia el equilibrio ideológico de la corte. Jackson y los demócratas rechazaron enérgicamente las acusaciones. Se requiere que tengan representación ahora, hace mucho tiempo", dijo Biden en marzo de 2020. Entre ellas, la inflación vertiginosa y la crisis en Ucrania. En su carta al presidente Joe Biden en enero pasado, Breyer dijo que su retiro será efectivo al final del mandato actual de la Corte Suprema, suponiendo que se confirme a su sucesor. La votación de confirmación final solo requirió una mayoría simple. "Me enseñaron a trabajar duro. Justamente, deberá esperar a que el juez Stephen Breyer se jubile para hacer el juramento.

Washington — El Senado estadounidense confirmó el nombramiento a la Corte Suprema de la jueza Ketanji Brown Jackson, rompiendo una barrera histórica al...

Y junto con Amy Coney Barrett en la otra ala, cuatro de los nueve integrantes serían mujeres, algo inédito en la historia. Tras una votación de 53-47, con tres votos republicanos, Jackson ocupará el lugar del juez Stephen Breyer, quien su retiró a mediados de año, con lo que se rejuvenece un ala liberal disminuida de la corte dominada por conservadores 6-3. Se sumaría a otras dos mujeres, Sonia Sotomayor y Elena Kagan, en el ala liberal de una corte en que los conservadores superan a los liberales por 6-3.