President Joe Biden during a conference on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s successful nomination to the Supreme Court thanked the three Republican senators who all but guaranteed her confirmation.
After weeks of scrutiny and debate on her qualifications to serve on the nation’s highest court, the Senate on April 7 voted 53–47 to approve her confirmation, putting her on track to be the nation’s first black female justice after Justice Stephen Breyer steps down at the end of the court’s current term.
