Minutes ago, the U.S. Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the next Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States!
This confirmation is historic — Jackson will be the first Black woman to ever sit on the nation's highest court. Because of this historic vote, we soon will have a Supreme Court Justice who will embody the diversity of our country and rule on consequential cases affecting voting rights, equality, and environmental justice.
Maine's two U.S. Senators, Susan Collins and Angus King, played a pivotal role in her confirmation, both just having voted to confirm her nomination on a bipartisan [53-47] roll call vote on the Senate floor.
Thanks in part to the activism of MCV members like you over the past months, our Senators put partisanship aside to confirm one of the most qualified nominees in recent history. Judge Jackson has served with distinction for over eight years on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where she wrote nearly 600 opinions, and was confirmed three times previously on bipartisan votes — including by both of Maine's U.S. Senators.
