WASHINGTON – The sky was sunny, matching the festive mood of the crowd on the South Lawn of the White House as U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Rev. Jesse Jackson, ex-Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and others celebrated Friday the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
“It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States,” Jackson said. “But we’ve made it. We’ve made it, all of us.”
