This past Sunday, Jen Psaki, the White House Press Secretary, stated that the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the then-vacant seat on the Supreme Court pulled forth an emotional response from quite a few throughout the administration of President Joe Biden.
Psaki stood alongside anchor Dana Perino, who once held Psaki’s spot as the White House press secretary back under former President George W. Bush, on “Fox News Sunday” to talk about the news from this recently passed week, and Perino brought special attention to the successful confirmation of Jackson within the Senate.
“I worked on two Supreme Court nominations myself,” started Perino. “I know they are very rewarding, especially when they result in a way that this one did.”
“This was a significant accomplishment for President Biden. Ketanji Brown Jackson is now going to be a Supreme Court Justice. Take a listen to one of the segments of her speech that was very touching.”
“In the poetic words of Dr. Maya Angelou, ‘I do so now while bringing the gifts my ancestors gave. I am the dream and the hope of the slave,'” stated Jackson, to a copious amount of cheer and applause from the gathered audience.
“Can you give us any, peel back the curtain, what was it like with her and President Biden behind the scenes?” posited Perino.
“It was — as you know, Dana, him from working on these in the past, it was a very emotional day in the White House, a joyful day, and there are so many days in the White House — no matter who you work for that are exhausting and heartbreaking and challenging because there aren’t easy answers to hard problems sometimes — but this was an incredibly joyful day, a day we celebrated, a day many of us were ugly crying on the White House South Lawn, just celebrating this remarkable woman who is making history but she is also so qualified to serve on the Supreme Court, so it was really a day I will remember for a long time to come,” stated Psaki in response.
“And she will take over after Breyer finishes up this summer,” Perino stated in conclusion. “Jen, thank you, thank you for the time this morning.”
Jackson was officially confirmed this past Thursday in a vote that resulted in a 53-47 split. A group of 3 Republican Senators– Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Mitt Romney (R-UT)– cast their vote in their favor in line with all 50 Democrat Senators.
Quite a few of the Republicans who cast their vote against Jackson, such as including Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), highlighted questions throughout the process concerning her record, especially an obvious pattern of issuing lighter than asked sentences in all of her cases that involve child pornography.