Washington — Supreme Courtroom Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was formally welcomed to the excessive courtroom at her investiture ceremony Friday morning, simply earlier than the Supreme Courtroom convenes for the beginning of its new time period Monday.
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, joined by their spouses, attended the closed, invitation-only ceremony Friday for Jackson, the primary Black girl to serve on the Supreme Courtroom. Jackson was nominated to the Supreme Courtroom by Mr. Biden to exchange retiring Justice Stephen Breyer and confirmed by the Senate in April. She was sworn in because the 116th justice on the finish of June.
No cameras had been allowed contained in the Supreme Courtroom for the six-minute ceremony. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath to Jackson, earlier than she took her seat on the bench and smiled as Roberts welcomed her to the courtroom. The courtroom was packed, and almost each seat inside was taken, in line with reporters contained in the room. All present and a few former justices had been in attendance.
Breyer had already administered the judicial oath to Jackson in late June.
The excessive courtroom ended its final time period — Breyer's final as a justice — with blockbuster rulings ending the constitutional proper to an abortion, increasing gun rights and curbing the facility of the Environenmental Safety Company to fight local weather change.
Within the excessive courtroom's new time period — Jackson's first — the justices will weigh in on race-conscious admissions insurance policies at selective universities, voting rights and federal elections and anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ folks.
They will even welcome members of the general public to oral arguments for the primary time for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic and supply dwell audio of scheduled arguments for the brand new time period. The excessive courtroom started offering audio of its arguments after the pandemic closed the courtroom and continued to take action via its most up-to-date time period.