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The White House is billing as a “celebration” its event on the south lawn later today when Joe Biden welcomes the newly-confirmed US supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Jackson, who will become the first Black woman to sit on the nation’s highest judicial panel, was confirmed 53-47 in an historic vote in the US senate on Thursday.