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Posted: 2022-09-29T09:30:09Z | Updated: 2022-09-29T09:30:09Z

President Joe Biden on Friday will attend an investiture ceremony for his historic Supreme Court pick, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, according to a White House official.

Vice President Kamala Harris, first lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will also join the president for the special event at the court.

Its a purely ceremonial event. Supreme Court justices have to take two oaths when they join the court, one to the Constitution and one to the judiciary. Jackson, who is the courts first Black woman and also its first former public defender, already took her oaths earlier this year. Fridays ceremony is a chance for Biden to be in attendance as Jackson takes her oath for the second time, which justices sometimes do for optics.

The presidents decision to attend the ceremony, along with his vice president and both of their spouses, is part of a broader effort by Democrats to publicly celebrate their record of confirming judges ahead of the midterm elections.

They should be celebrating: Since taking office, Biden, with the help of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), has confirmed more than 80 people to lifetime federal judgeships, which is more than decades of past presidents had confirmed by this point in their terms. Beyond that, Biden has been picking a much more diverse mix of people for federal judgeships than his predecessors, marking a huge departure from the prototypical white male corporate lawyers almost always tapped for these jobs.

Roughly three-quarters of the presidents judicial nominees have been women, two-thirds people of color, Schumer boasted Wednesday on the Senate floor. One nominee at a time, we are making our federal bench a better reflection of our great country.