It's Friday, April 8, 2022. I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing. A daily analysis

of news and events from a Christian worldview.

The next justice of the United States Supreme Court will be Judge Katanji Brown Jackson,

that by the decision of the United States Senate yesterday to confirm her to that position after her nomination by

President Joe Biden. And so Judge Jackson will become Justice Jackson, but that

will take place only either at the end of June or in the beginning of July.

More on that in just a moment.

The fact is that the decisive vote came yesterday.

That 5347 vote was basically along party lines. All 50 of the Democrats voted for her

in terms of her nomination and three Republicans joined with the Democrats in that

vote, thus 50 plus 3 53 the three Republican senators were Utah Senator Mitt Romney main senator Susan Collins and Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski you put three together, I discussed them yesterday on the briefing, but what we now have is the fact

that a basically liberal, actually quite definitively, liberal justice Stephen Breyer, who has served on the court now for a matter of

decades will be succeeded by another liberal almost surely to his left.

Judge Jackson was extremely reticent as you will remember to speak much about her

judicial philosophy she even actually denied that she had one but nonetheless

she was nominated to that post by president Joe Biden who had made a pledge during the presidential

campaign that he would appoint a black woman if he had the opportunity to appoint a

justice to the Supreme Court. He was given that opportunity with the announcement of

the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer and then he had a choice between

eligible black women by his own definition, his own restriction, who could have been

nominated to the bench.

He chose of those who were well known to be under consideration the one considered to be the

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