PROMISED JUSTICE
Mar 04, 2022
3 minutes
BY MADELEINE CARLISLE
The Brief is reported by Eloise Barry, Madeleine Carlisle, Mariah Espada, Tara Law, Sanya Mansoor, Ciara Nugent, Billy Perrigo, and Olivia B. Waxman
EFORE HER GRADUATION from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1988, Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in her yearbook that she wanted to be a judge. Thirty-four years later, Jackson walked into the White House, where President Joe Biden nominated her to be the first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court in its 232-year history.
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