When word first leaked Friday that President Biden had chosen Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, Democrats and civil rights activists were ecstatic.
“My first reaction was: It’s 2022 and we’re still doing firsts?” said Tré Easton, a progressive strategist. “But then it hit me. It was a pretty emotional moment.”
Glynda Carr, the president and chief executive of Higher Heights for America, which advocates for Black representation in politics, called it “long overdue.” She noted that there were “currently zero Black women on the Supreme Court, zero Black women in the Senate, zero Black women governors and zero Black women who have ever served as president of this country.”
Democrats we spoke to emphasized the breakthrough nature of Biden’s pick, and pointed to Jackson’s scholarly pedigree and years on the federal bench.
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