Forgive me for using the initials to describe the next associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. KBJ, of course, is the distinguished judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who today stands poised to join the nationâs highest court as the first Black woman ever nominated for the post.
Judge Jackson will make history when the full Senate casts its vote to confirm her. Indeed, she received a needed boost toward a bipartisan confirmation when Republican Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in announcing their support for Judge Jacksonâs nomination.
With all 50 Senate Democrats set to hold firm, KBJ will be confirmed later this week.
This is a big deal, folks. Even some Republican senators noted the historical significance of President Bidenâs nomination of Judge Jackson in announcing their intention to oppose her joining the SCOTUS.
Many Republican senators have noted Jacksonâs stellar qualifications, her background, her temperament, her courage, her legal brilliance. They cannot support her, they said, because of her âjudicial philosophy.â
Yeah ⌠whatever.
Leave it to bomb-throwers like Ted Cruz of Texas, though, to say that Judge Jackson will become the most âfar leftâ judge in Supreme Court history. I donât take seriously anything that comes out of Cancun Tedâs pie hole these days. I mean, anyone who would abandon his constituents who are freezing to death by jetting off to Cancun â as Cruz did a year ago â only has earned Texansâ scorn.
Back to Judge Jacksonâs pending confirmation âŚ
This is a gigantic event. I applaud President Biden for keeping his 2020 campaign pledge by appointing a supremely qualified African American woman to the nationâs highest court. I applaud those senators who have supported her nomination. And I salute Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the service to the country she is about to deliver.