Cheers for Jackson as Biden declares ‘moment of real change’

President Joe Biden, accompanied by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (Andrew Harnik/AP)

President Joe Biden celebrated the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first black woman to reach the Supreme Court, hailing “a moment of real change in American history”.

It was a moment 46 days — and more than two centuries — in the making. Ms Jackson, who was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday, will take the bench later this year, filling the shoes of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on a court that was made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries, that declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed American segregation.