White House celebrates Ketanji Brown Jacksons Supreme Court confirmation

US President Joe Biden, along with Vice President Kamala Harris, celebrated the historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court at an event held on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday.

“This is going to let so much shine, sunshine, on so many young women. So many young, Black women. So many minorities. That is real. It’s real! We’re going to look back, and nothing to do with me, we’re going to look back and see this as a moment of real change in American history,” Biden said at the White House.

“Yesterday we all witnessed a truly historic moment, presided over by the vice president. There are moments that people go back in history and they are literally historic. Consequential. Fundamental shifts in American policy,” he praised Jackson as she stood beside him.

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Lauding the 51-year-old, Vice President Kamala Harris said that the confirmation reaffirms former President George Washington’s vision that the country could “form a more perfect union.”

“Judge Jackson, you will inspire generations of leaders. They will watch your confirmation hearings and read your decisions,” Harris said on Friday.

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“In the years to come, the court will answer fundamental questions about who we are and what kind of country we live in. Will we expand opportunity or restrict it? Will we strengthen the foundations of our great democracy? Or let them crumble? Will we move forward or backward? The young leaders of our nation will learn from the experience, the judgment, the wisdom that you, Judge Jackson, will apply in every case that comes before you,” she added.

Addressing the crowd, Brown Jackson remembered the long and tedious journey of being appointed to the US Supreme Court as a Black woman. 

“It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. “But we’ve made it. We’ve made it. All of us. All of us,” she said as a crowd cheered in unison.