Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson takes office on the US Supreme Court
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Kentaji Brown Jackson with US President Joe Biden and US Vice President Kamala Harris. | Photo: EFE/EPA/JIM LO SCALZO Jackson was nominated by US President Joe Biden to the US Supreme Court, and in April managed to gather enough votes in the Senate to be confirmed in office and become the first black woman to reach the highest court in the country.
In March, during Senate hearings, Jackson was criticized for her work defending those accused of possessing child pornography. According to Senator Ted Cruz, for example, a pedophile from 13 years in possession of pornography child was sentenced to only three months of detention, below the recommended by the prosecution and the law.
Jackson’s presence, however, does not change the ideological makeup of the US Supreme Court, which, with six conservative and three progressive justices, is leaner to the right than at any time since the 1990s 992.
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