President Joe Biden during a conference on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s successful nomination to the Supreme Court thanked the three Republican senators who all but guaranteed her confirmation. After weeks of scrutiny and debate on her qualifications to serve on the nation’s highest court, the Senate on April 7 voted 53–47 to approve her confirmation, putting her on track to be the nation’s first black female justice after Justice Stephen Breyer steps down at the end of the court’s current term. All 50 Democrats voted in favor of the nominee and were joined by three Republicans: Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). The 47 other Republicans in the upper chamber opposed her confirmation. Biden presented the successful confirmation vote as a historic achievement that will “[bend] the moral arc of the universe … a little more toward justice.” “Yesterday—this is not only a sunny day,” …