President Biden And Former President Obama Deliver Remarks On Affordable Care Act WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 08: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson delivers remarks, flanked by President Joe Biden and Vice Pres
ident Kamala Harris during an event on the South Lawn of the White House on April 08, 2022 in Washington, DC. Judge Jackson was confirmed yesterday to the Supreme Court of the United States making history as the first Black woman to join its ranks while leaving the ideological balance on the nation's highest court unchanged. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
The justices agreed to review a lower court’s opinion that found Alabama's redrawn 2021 congressional map was likely a violation of the law because it includes only one majority Black district out of seven, despite Black voters accounting for 27% of the state's voting population. Jackson wondered why Lacour would make such a claim given that framers of the 14th Amendment — which guaranteed equal protection to all people, including former slaves — did not intend it to be “race neutral or race blind.”