'To have someone who looks like me be represented in the Supreme Court Justice is life-changing,' said Penn law student Chayla Sherrod on the historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
But they can't stress enough the Supreme Court is getting an extremely qualified legal mind.
Jackson, a graduate of Harvard Law, will be the most experienced trial court judge to join the Supreme Court in almost a century.She's now going to be the first justice who has served as a public defender. "I think she'll be able to fairly assess the law and the facts as the cases come to the Supreme Court," said Hunter-Hobson.
"I think she'll be very aware of how the law can be impactful for different groups of people while also protecting and preserving kind of the scared nature of the constitution," said Sherrod."Having that representation I think will invite new discussion to the Supreme Court and step away from just the conservative and liberal sides of it," said Sherrod.
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