# The Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson after Biden’s nomination

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 7 April 2022 the Senate confirmed [Ketanji Brown Jackson](/people/ketanji-brown-jackson) to the Supreme Court after President Biden nominated her. He nominated; he did not write the Senate roll-call.

## Context

The Judiciary Committee sat. Neighbouring PACT and IRA are later 2022 statutes. He did not sit as a justice.

Respect for Marriage 2022 is a later rights statute. The 2024 withdrawal is later politics.

The President of the United States signs enrolled bills and is Commander in Chief. He does not write a Senate roll-call, a CBP sector tally, an IDF campaign, or a CBO score. A signature is not unique authorship of every title Congress enrolled. Drafting and floor votes remain with Congress. An archived [White House](/organizations/white-house) (https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/) is the official carrier for this term; current whitehouse.gov is not this administration. Office-holding is not authorship of every later CPI print, encounter table, or foreign campaign.

## Evidence and sources

United States Senate carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [protection of minority rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights) and [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed nomination-and-confirmation of the first Black woman justice is a dated representation-and-court instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 7 April 2022 Senate confirmation after his nomination, independently reported.

Not established: that he wrote the roll-call, or a unique later docket coefficient from that Thursday.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Senate confirmed. He did not write the roll-call. The Court later sat.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson after Biden’s nomination, not a later speech about The Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson after Biden’s nomination.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson after Biden’s nomination on 2022-04-07 is not a licence to treat every later United States Senate communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson after Biden’s nomination into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He nominated. The Senate confirmed. He did not write the roll-call. The Court later sat. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Joe Biden: https://factrail.ai/people/joe-biden

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights
- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience
- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00134.htm
- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senate-confirms-ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-2022-04-07/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-biden-kbj-2022