{"id":51122,"date":"2022-04-07T19:09:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51122"},"modified":"2022-04-07T19:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:09:45","slug":"call-her-justice-designate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51122","title":{"rendered":"Call her &#8216;justice-designate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Ketanji Brown Jackson now can be called a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice-designate, given that the Senate has confirmed her nomination to the nation\u2019s highest court in a 53-47 bipartisan vote.<\/p>\n<p>This is a stellar day in the history of this great country, with Justice-designate Jackson becoming the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Her confirmation was a foregone conclusion, with three Republican senators \u2014 Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine \u2014 joining their Democratic colleagues in sending the newest justice to the court, where she will take her seat when its new term begins in October.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden made a double-sided pledge during the 2020 presidential campaign: that he would nominate an African American woman to the court if he got the chance and that the nominee would be a supremely qualified jurist.<\/p>\n<p>The president delivered the goods on both counts.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden has earned applause for delivering on this key campaign promise. And the newest justice \u2014 who will succeed Justice Stephen Breyer \u2014 has earned the nation\u2019s good wishes as she prepares for the job of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ketanji Brown Jackson now can be called a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice-designate, given that the Senate has confirmed her nomination to the nation\u2019s highest court in a 53-47 bipartisan vote. This is a stellar day in the history of this great country, with Justice-designate Jackson becoming the first Black woman to serve on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call her &#8216;justice-designate&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2505,9889,6363],"class_list":["post-51122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-ketanji-brown-jackson","tag-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51123,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51122\/revisions\/51123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}