Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed today as the first African American woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. It is a historic moment. For some reason, the scene from the movie Harriet comes to mind, where Harriet Tubman became the first woman to lead a military engagement in American history, conducting a raid with the all-black Massachussetts 54th Regiment on the Combahee River ferry in South Carolina, defeating the Confederates and freeing over 700 slaves. It took 160 years to get from that moment to this one, where an African American woman is confirmed to the Supreme Court.
I say that to make this point, President Joe Biden has been in office just a little over a year, and we have a female, African-American Vice-President, and now a female, African American Supreme Court Justice. May the effects of her presence on the court grow and may she serve for many decades. Noting that these are promises kept, here is yet one more reason why the Democratic party majority that stepped up to elect President Biden in 2020 needs to show up in similar numbers at the polls in November, to make sure this trend keeps moving forward.
This moment deserves its own time to celebrate. Service in our representative democracy has expanded yet again to include another excluded segment of the population. Here's to President Joe Biden and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. May this President have multiple opportunities to appoint justices to the Supreme Court.
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