The Senate made history on Thursday when it confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, handing President Biden a significant win. Jackson’s ascension to the country’s highest court breaks multiple barriers: She will be the court’s first Black female justice and its first former public defender. Senators voted 53-47 on Jackson’s confirmation. GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mitt Romney (Utah) bucked their party and voted to confirm her.
President Biden’s choice ended a monthlong search to replace Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who is retiring. Few Republicans are expected to back her nomination.
President Joe Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which is the court of principal jurisdiction over challenges to FCC decisions, like net neutrality and media ownership. She would take the seat of now Attorney General Merrick Garland.
