President Joe Biden hosted Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at the White House on Friday to celebrate her historic confirmation by the Senate to serve as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.
To cheers and applause, Biden stood with Vice President Kamala Harris — the first Black woman to hold that elected office — and Jackson at the event on the South Lawn.
“We’re going to look back and see this as a moment of real change in American history,” Biden said, adding he had thought about the importance of nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court “for a long, long time.”
During the confirmation process, he said, “We all saw the kind of justice she’ll be: fair and impartial, thoughtful, careful, precise, brilliant, a brilliant legal mind with deep knowledge of the law, and a judicial temperament — which was equally important, in my view — that’s calm and in command, and a humility that allows so many Americans to see themselves in Ketanji Brown Jackson.”
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