Monday at the Bar. Courthouses of the West: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed by Senate

Courthouses of the West: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed by Senate: 

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed by Senate

I should have noted this when it occurred, but it seemed sort of anticlimactic at the time and there was a lot going on, so I failed to note it. 

Also, I don't have a good picture to put up as, unusually, Justice Jackson lacks a public domain photo that I can find, in spite of being an appellate court judge prior to being confirmed for the U.S. Supreme Court.

As widely noted, the confirmation is historic as she's the first African American woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.  It's presumed that she's liberal to moderately liberal in her judicial views.  Her confirmation hearings turned out to be oddly contentious on odd issues, unfairly focusing on her role as a public defender, whose job after all is to defend the accused, and on sentencing as a district court judge that largely matches the Federal norm.  Indeed, the hearings focused attention on how political such appointments now are, in the view of Senators, something we'll presumably live with for a long time.