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Before heading out for a two-week spring recess, senators today cast a history-making vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s unlikely to influence the midterm campaigns in a pivotal way, though it may energize Democrats’ core voters, especially Black Americans, to whom the party is making new overtures. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching an ad campaign aimed at Black voters, CNN reports, focused on the now-lapsed child tax credit. That comes amid some troubling polling for Democrats on the issue and polling that shows eroding support for President Joe Biden among Black voters.
