Biden has only made one addition to the Supreme Court (but with a second term, he may be able to do more). But his first addition hit it out of the park.
‘We’ve made it,’ Jackson says of being the first Black woman headed to the Supreme Court
Today, the White House celebrated the historic nature of Justice-designate Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court in its 233-year history. During a celebration Friday afternoon, President Biden called it “a moment of real change in American history” as he basked in a moment that has energized his party’s base. Jackson, meanwhile, cited poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou when marking the importance of her confirmation: “I am the dream and the hope of the slave.”
and she has been amazing:
No ‘tiny voice’: Ketanji Brown Jackson’s outspoken first term
When Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the Supreme Court’s newest justice last summer, she joined a court riven along ideological lines and confronting some of the most serious challenges to its legitimacy in a generation.
She immediately showed her determination to make a mark as an unflinching dissenter — and, throughout her first year, she also displayed flashes of seeking cross-ideological consensus.
During a term largely defined by cases involving race, Jackson — the first Black woman to serve as a justice — repeatedly voiced a full-throated defense of race-conscious measures to remedy discrimination. As a former public defender, she proved closely attuned to the arguments of criminal defendants, perhaps more so than any other justice. And she took on a prominent role during the court’s oral arguments, speaking far more than any of her colleagues.
and this:
For Ketanji Brown Jackson, a self-assured and forceful US Supreme Court debut
In December, during a heated U.S. Supreme Court oral argument involving a collision between free speech protections for business owners and LGBT rights, liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who had joined the bench only about two months before, raised the most memorable question of the day.
Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the top U.S. juridical body, suggested to a lawyer for Lorie Smith, a Christian web designer from Colorado seeking a right to refuse to design websites for same-sex marriages, that the case could be a slippery slope.
A win for Smith, Jackson said, could allow a professional photographer to exclude Black children from a nostalgic Christmas photo with Santa Claus styled after the 1940s - a time of racial segregation in parts of the United States - because "they're trying to capture the feelings of a certain era," Jackson said.
After pressing the example, Kristen Waggoner, Smith's attorney, responded that "there are difficult lines to draw and that may be an edge case."
According to legal scholar Adam Feldman, who tracks court data, Jackson spoke more during oral arguments than any of the other current justices during their first terms.
and this:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says 'whole truth' about Black history must be taught
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday delivered a stirring defense of the need to educate American school children about the nation's dark history of racial inequality and violence in a still-ongoing battle for civil rights.
"The work of our time is maintaining that hard-won freedom, and to do that, we're going to need the truth -- the whole truth -- about our past," Jackson said in a speech at the Birmingham, Alabama, 16th Street Baptist Church, where a bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan killed four young girls and injured dozens of others 60 years ago.
"We must teach it to our children and preserve it for theirs," Jackson said. "Knowledge of the past is what enables us to mark our forward progress. If we're going to continue to move forward as a nation, we can't allow concern about discomfort to displace knowledge, truth, or history."
and how about Cory Booker’s amazing speech during her hearings:
Biden picked a winner. Like he tends to do.
Is there still more work to be done? 100%! Lots more work. But Biden did more than many people guessed could be done. And he deserves a lot of credit. AND he deserves to be re-elected.
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