Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court
The Senate on Thursday voted 53-47 to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
Three Republican senators — Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine — joined all 48 Democrats and two independents in voting to confirm Jackson to the nation’s highest court.
Jackson, 51, will become the Supreme Court’s 116th justice and the first Black woman ever to sit on its bench.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation’s first woman, first Black person and first Asian American to hold that office, presided over the historic vote.
The final tally — which was delayed by more than 15 minutes by GOP Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s absence — was met with applause in the chamber when Harris announced it.
“I am feeling overjoyed,” Harris told reporters as she left the Senate. “And I am feeling a deep sense of pride in who we are as a nation.
[Black Americans celebrate Jackson’s historic confirmation]
“I think it makes a very important statement about who we aspire to be,” she added. “On our highest court in the land, we want to make sure that there’s going to be full representation of the finest and brightest and best. And that’s what happened today.”
Of the 115 justices that have come before Jackson, 108 were white men, two were Black men, four were white women and one was a Latina woman.
“In the 233-year history of the Supreme Court, never, never has a Black woman held the title of justice,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a speech before the vote. “Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the first and I believe the first of more to come.”
Jackson watched the vote unfold with President Biden at the White House on Thursday.
“Judge Jackson’s confirmation was a historic moment for our nation,” Biden tweeted. “We’ve taken another step toward making our highest court reflect the diversity of America. She will be an incredible Justice, and I was honored to share this moment with her.”
Biden and Harris will host Jackson at an event on the South Lawn on Friday to celebrate her confirmation.
Ukraine war: Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov denies war crimes but admits 'significant' Russian losses
In a wide-ranging interview with Sky News, Dmitry Peskov denied atrocities had taken place, said NATO was confrontational, accused Boris Johnson of not being "constructive" and said Russia is trying to bring the war to an end soon.
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Vladimir Putin's spokesman has admitted a "significant" loss of Russian troops since the invasion of Ukraine began, telling Sky News their deaths are a "tragedy".
Dmitry Peskov, in his first broadcast interview with Western media, also said Russia hopes "this operation" will reach its goals "in the coming days".
He told Sky News' Mark Austin that "we're living in days of fakes and lies" and verified photos and satellite images of dead civilians in the streets of Ukrainian cities were a "bold fake".
"We deny the Russian military can have something in common with these atrocities and that dead bodies were shown on the streets of Bucha," he told Sky News.
He maintained the whole situation in Bucha, where photos show many murdered Ukrainian civilians, was a "well-staged insinuation, nothing else".
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