The Latest Breaking News from Ketanji Brown Jackson

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday heralded the historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is about to become the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court, as a moment of “real change in American history.”

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‘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’

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"It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court."

"We're going to look back and see this as a moment of real change in American history," Biden said.

President Joe Biden blasted Republican attacks against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her confirmation hearings during a celebration of her ascent to the Supreme Court on Friday.

‘When we ask hard questions of an African-American nominee who’s liberal, all of a sudden we’re racist,’ the South Carolina Republican crows.

The event celebrated a historic moment for the country, and Jackson spoke of civil rights struggles that got her there.