Dabbing tears from her face on the South Lawn of the White House, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke of her personal journey to the steps of the Supreme Court, and how it dovetailed with the hopes and history of people she had come to symbolize.
From the South Lawn on Friday, Biden blasted some Republican senators for making the “most vile, baseless assertions and accusations.” In the moments after she was confirmed, as Democrats applauded, many Republican senators silently filed out of the chamber.
“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 is equally important,” Biden said. The attacks, he added, were familiar to “women and women of color who have had to run the gantlet in their own lives … you stood up for them as well. They know it — everybody out there, every woman out there.
“I think it was a missed opportunity by a lot of people on that Senate floor yesterday … to be on the right side of history,” Jones said. “I think what you saw here was really a stretch by a number of folks to try to find something that they could hang their hat on to oppose this incredible, amazing jurist.”
“My clerkship with Justice Breyer, in particular, was an extraordinary gift and one for which I’ve only become more grateful with each passing year,” she said.
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