The Senate votes on Thursday to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court Justice with bipartisan support

The Senate will vote this Thursday to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as Supreme Court judge, at the proposal of the president, Joe Biden, predictably making her the first black magistrate of the highest court, whose political balance will not change in any case: the majority (six ) remains conservative, against three progressives (Brown Jackson will replace Justice Stephen Breyer).

Jackson is expected to receive the vote of the 50 Democratic senators and three moderate Republicans: Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), and Mitt Rommey (Utah), who indicated that, although they did not always agree with their positions, They consider her highly qualified for the position.

During her confirmation hearing, Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled her about her sentencing record and accused her of being too liberal and weak against criminals.

“I have been a judge for almost a decade and I take that responsibility and

very seriously ,” Jackson told the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing.

"I decide cases with a neutral stance," he said, "I assess the facts, and interpret and apply the law to the facts of the case before me, without fear or favor, consistent with my oath."

Brown Jackson is sworn in for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 21, 2022 in Washington DCJacquelyn Martin/AP

For the first time in the history of the Supreme Court, four of the nine judges will be women: along with Brown Jackson there are two other progressive magistrates (Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan), as well as conservative Amy Coney Barrett.

And for the first time in 30 years, none of the members of the court will exceed 75 years of age.

The 51-year-old Jackson's first term will be marred by race-related cases, both in college admissions and voting rights.

He has agreed not to participate in the examination of the Harvard admissions program, since he is a member of the university's board of trustees.

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Jackson, who has served for eight months as a judge on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (she previously served eight years as a federal trial judge), will fill the position vacated in the summer by Stephen Breyer, becoming the second justice youngest on the Supreme Court, after Barrett, and the first since Thurgood Marshall with significant experience as a defense attorney.

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She was born in Washington, but grew up in Miami, Florida, where her mother was a school administrator and her father was an attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board.

Her life was shaped by her parents' experiences with racial segregation and civil rights laws that were enacted a decade before she was born, she said.

She was a national champion public speaker and student body president in high school, later graduating from Harvard University.

She was a law clerk for Breyer on the Supreme Court, who once described her as "

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She spent seven years as a lawyer, and was also an assistant public defender in Washington, representing defendants who could not afford an attorney.

She also served on the Sentencing Commission, which sets the guidelines for federal judges to impose punishments, and 

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As a judge, she has no record of ruling, writing or speaking on the burning issues of abortion, the right to bear arms or freedom of religion.