“‘I could see it as a day of hope, a day of promise, a day of progress, a day when once again the moral arc of the universe — as Barack (Obama) used to quote all the time — bends a little more toward justice,’ Biden said at a boisterous event on the South Lawn of the White House. ‘I believe so strongly that we needed a court that looks like America.'” Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court showed the progress of America, declaring, ‘We’ve made it — all of us.'”

+ Video: “In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States.”