woman in history to be a supreme courtjustice. our washington correspondent nomia iqbal has more from capitol hill. on this vote, the yeas are 53, the naes are 47 and this nomination is confirmed. applause. america s first black female vice president confirmed that america now has its first black female justice. she secured the votesjustice ketanji brown jackson smiled from inside the white house with president biden while inside, the senate democrats cheered. mr biden has fulfilled a campaign promise to put a black woman on the country s highest court a lifetime appointment. justice brown jackson is a harvard graduate and started her career in law in 1996. she will be the onlyjustice on this current court with significant experience as a criminal defence lawyer working on behalf of poor defendants. she sat there more than three days of hours and hours
watching bbc breakfast. for the first time ever, a black female judge willjoin america 5 highest court. kentanji brown jackson, will be one of nine life long member of the us supreme court. her appointment comes following fierce questioning from critics. our washington correspondent, nomia iqbal reports. on this vote, the yays are 53, the nays are 47. and this nomination is confirmed. applause and cheering. america s first black female vice president confirmed that america now has its first black female justice. as she secured the votes, justice ketanji brown jackson smiled from inside the white house with president biden, while inside the senate democrats cheered. mr biden has fulfilled a campaign promise to put a black woman on the country s highest court, a lifetime appointment. justice brown jackson is a harvard graduate,
operate, particularly lawyers, it s that they should defend him at all costs. he had that line of i want my protector, i want someone who is going to have my back no matter what, whether i ve done something inappropriate, not inappropriate, whatever the case may be. so to the degree that everyone in the trump organization was a raid in order to do that, to basically defend him at all costs, these are a bunch of people who the southern district has access to and are going to want to question. in the case of these payments, allegedly to buy silence of women who had alleged affairs with the president, or then-candidate trump, was there any corporate money involved? was it done deliberately to influence the election? that could be a campaign violation. we re going to continue to keep our eye on the president out in iowa. coming up, the candidate vying to be america s first black female governor. can she turn a historically red state blue?