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Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first African-American justice to be promoted to the US Supreme Court on Thursday, taking office minutes after the retirement of 83-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer. who had been nominated in 1994 by Bill Clinton.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first black woman on the US Supreme Court.
With the entry of Jackson, three months after his confirmation in the Senate, the highest judicial body in the country already has four women, a composition unprecedented since the court was created in 1789.
Harvard-educated Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, has been a federal judge since 2013 and was appointed in February by President Joe Biden, who had pledged to elect the first African-American woman to the Supreme Court.
The new judge enters a time when the judicial year of the court is completed until the reopening of the new year after the summer, although her work begins immediately.
US Supreme Court decision will facilitate the transport of weapons in public places in New York
The final decisions of this term, by a supermajority of six conservative and three progressive justices, included the repeal of the constitutional right to abortion, the limitation of anti-pollution legislation, and the repeal of a law in New York that limited the use of weapons in public.
Supreme Court of the United States ends the constitutional right to abortion in the country
Source: Observadora
