In all likelihood, the U.S. Senate will confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson this week as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. She will be the first Black woman and only the third Black person to serve on our nation's highest court in the history of that institution.
Unlike other recently nominated justices, Jackson is eminently qualified for the position and its great responsibilities. Instead of affording her the dignity and respect she has earned, Senate Republicans are expected to vote almost unanimously against her confirmation. This is wholly predictable, which in no way makes it less perfidious: Today's Republican Party is the world's largest white supremacist and sexist political organization. Jackson's success is anathema to its apartheid plans for America.
