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WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, the end of a historic nomination process streaked with acrimony even for a justice who will not alter the court’s current conservative tilt.

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, the end of a historic nomination process streaked with acrimony even for a justice who will not alter the court’s current conservative tilt.

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Jackson confirmed 53 votes to 47, and will become first Black woman to serve in court’s more than 200-year history

"Spouses are not members of Congress," he said on Ginni Thomas' activism to overturn the 2020 election.

McConnell had not previously been pressed on the contradiction.

WASHINGTON — The Senate is expected to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, the end of a historic nomination process streaked with acrimony even for a justice who will not alter the court’s current conservative tilt.

"We’re going to do everything we can do push this administration into domestic energy production."

"I think we have a moral obligation," McConnell said.

The Senate minority leader told Axios’ Jonathan Swan that he won’t “put the cart before the horse."

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