The Senate is expected to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday, securing her place as the first Black woman on the high court and giving President Joe Biden a semi-bipartisan endorsement for his historic pick.

Three Republican senators have said they will support Jackson, who would replace Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires this summer. While the vote will be far from the overwhelming bipartisan confirmations for Breyer and other justices in decades past, it will still be a significant accomplishment for Biden in the narrow 50-50 Senate after GOP senators said Jackson was far too liberal and soft on crime.

“It will be a joyous day,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., gloated as he announced Thursday’s vote late Wednesday evening. “Joyous for the Senate, joyous for the Supreme Court, joyous for America.”

Jackson, a 51 year-old federal appeals court judge, would be just the third Black justice, after Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, and the sixth woman. She would join two other women, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, on the liberal side of a 6-3 conservative court. With Justice Amy Coney Barrett sitting at the other end of the bench, four of the nine justices would be women for the first time in history.

Despite Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee aggressively interrogated Jackson on her sentencing record, three moderate GOP senators came out and said they would support her. The statements from Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and Utah Sen. Mitt Romney all said the same thing — they might not always agree with Jackson, but they found her well qualified for the job.

Collins and Murkowski both decried the increasingly partisan confirmation process, which Collins called “broken” and Murkowski called “corrosive” and “more detached from reality by the year.”

It was an attempted reset from three brutal Supreme Court battles during President Donald Trump’s presidency, when Democrats vociferously opposed the nominees — most notably creating a circus around Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.

Late in his confirmation process, Kavanaugh was suddenly accused of sexual assault by multiple women… all of which either admitted they were lying or later said they didn’t want federal investigations into their claims.

Once sworn in, Jackson would be the second youngest member of the court after Barrett, 50. She would join a court where no one is yet 75, the first time that has happened in nearly 30 years.

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The Associated Press contributed to this article