'This is a moment in which all Americans can take great pride,' Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson says. 'In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States.'
To cheers and applause, Biden stood with Vice President Kamala Harris — the first Black woman to hold that elected office — and Jackson at the event on the South Lawn.
"You are the very definition of what the Irish refer to as dignity," said the president, who frequently invokes his Irish heritage.It has taken more than 230 years"and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States," she said, her eyes at times tearing up and her voice thick with emotion."But we’ve made it, we’ve made it. All of us.
Harris, who presided over the vote, told Jackson that she drafted a note to her goddaughter, who wore braids"just a little longer than yours," while the senators were voting.
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