After facing one obstacle after another, Ketanji Brown Jackson was finally confirmed as  the new Supreme Court Justice. This makes her the first-ever Black woman to serve as a Justice on the Supreme Court. Judge Jackson was nominated for the position by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022. By April 7, 2022, a bipartisan group of senators confirmed the nomination.

Judge Jackson has a lot of experience under her belt but that was disregarded and disrespected multiple times in an attempt to prevent her nomination from being finalized.

Born in Washington D.C, raised in Miami Florida, Judge Jackson’s passion for law goes back to when her father was attending law school. As stated by the White House’s official website, she recalls sitting next to her father as he did his law homework while she completed her preschool homework. Judge Jackson graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and afterward, graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School. While in law school, she was the editor for the Harvard Law Review.

A common retort brought up against Judge Jackson was that some felt she was unqualified for the position. However, it is the complete opposite as Judge Jackson was a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Vice Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Public defender, Supreme Court Clerk, and a Perspective on the Legal System. Despite Judge Jackson’s extensive experience, her intelligence and judgment were questioned on the account of her sentencing ruling on child pornography, and some alluded that she too lenient with her charges against offenders. This was insinuated by Senator Josh Hawley, but fact-checkers proceeded to debunk and criticize the claim. Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin stated that congress “didn’t have clean hands” in the issue due to the fact that they have not updated sentencing regulations. Senator Cruz claimed his questions didn’t have anything to do with race. However he kept asking questions about Judge Jackson’s stance about critical race theory.