Soon after Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, he promised that he would nominate a black woman to the highest court of the land, and yesterday’s confirmation is seen as a Biden win.
The United States Senate confirmed the first ever black woman, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, to the Supreme Court on Thursday in a vote of 53-47. The new Justice holds two law degrees from Harvard.
At the time of the announcement (that he’d nominate a black woman), Biden was slammed for veering away from looking for the best and instead going for specifically a black woman. Kentanji, however, possesses impressive credentials, including two law degrees both of which she finished on top of her class.
Kentanji's first degree at Harvard University was in government, and she graduated in 1992 with an A.B. magna cum laude, having written a senior thesis entitled, "The Hand of Oppression: Plea Bargaining Processes and the Coercion of Criminal Defendants". Magna cum laude is an academic honour used by educational institutions to signify that an academic degree was earned with notable distinction.
Kentanji worked as a staff reporter and researcher for Time magazine from 1992 to 1993, before enrolling at Harvard Law School, where she was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. She graduated in 1996 with a law degree.
Kentanji was the first and only choice for Biden’s Democrat Party when she was nominated in February after the retirement of liberal Justice Stephen Breyer from the Supreme court in January. After the president nominated Kentanji, the Sanate commenced the confirmation hearings to gauge whether she was up to the part or not.
Conservative senators also grilled Kentanji over her leniency towards child pornography offenders, accusing her of handing out soft sentences to perpetrators.
“What we found was 10 cases where she’s weighed in on child pornography. Eight of those 10 cases, she was below the minimum sentence,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee told US media.
Candace Owens, the popular black American political commentator and journalist, is one of many conservatives that have slammed the new Supreme Court justice for being a pedophile sympathiser for what records showed that she had been far more
In one of the Senate hearings, Kentanji was asked to describe a woman, which is currently a de facto litmus test to find out if one supports transgenderism or not. She responded by laughing and adding that she was not a biologist.
That statement went viral and the whole nation trained their focus on her; conservatives viewed her as too far Left, while the Left fell in love with her.
Her confirmation is a big win for the Democrat Party and the liberals of the US because she highly subscribes to the philosophy of the left.