President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. Presents Remarks on his Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Serve as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
The White House Garden Event of Former First Lady Michelle Obama in Washington, DC, USA. | White House Photo by Karen Ann Carr / TheWhiteHouseSpin.com / SPIN PUBLISHING
President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. On His Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Serve as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Reported by Karen Ann Carr
President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. Presents Remarks on his Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Serve as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court at The White House on Friday, February 25, 2022. Judge Jackson presented remarks. Vice President Kamala Devi Harris, First Lady Jill Biden, PhD, and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, Esq. attended. This, very historic, White House event takes place at the Cross Hall.
Written by Karen Ann Carr
(SPIN PUBLISHING) - President Biden presents remarks on his nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black-American Woman to sit on the highest court in the United States of America.
If you know me, you know it has long been the desire of my heart to see this process begin in our country. There are many outstanding legal scholars alive today, which are female and of Black-American lineage.
Today, one of the many spoke eloquently with humility as she stood upon the shoulders of her parents, uncles, brother, husband, children, numerous mentors, and Federal Judge: the Honorable Constance Baker Motley, an outstanding Black-American who was denied the opportunity to serve Americans as a US Justice.
Constance Baker Motley first met Martin Luther King, Jr., in July 1962, after successfully arguing that protesters had the right to demonstrate in Albany, Georgia. Lawyer William Kuntsler is at right. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-138785.
In 1965, Constance Baker Motley became the first woman President of New York’s Manhattan Borough. Motley’s husband, Joel, and her son, Joel III, look on as Mayor Robert Wagner administers the oath. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-138798.
Constance Baker Motley became the nation’s first African American woman to serve as a federal judge in 1966, when President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed her to the Southern District of New York. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-138789.
A 1998 portrait of U.S. District Judge Constance Baker Motley. Credit: Chester Higgins Archive.
Constance Baker Motley with James Meredith and lawyer Jack Greenberg after a 1962 appellate court hearing in New Orleans. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-DIG-ppmsca-05544.
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