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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Nov 12, 2020, 04:22 PM Nov 2020

Ron Klain will bring years of Supreme Court smarts to Biden's White House

If President-elect Joe Biden gets to choose a new Supreme Court justice, chief of staff Ron Klain would have the playbook ready.

Klain, tapped for the top Biden role on Wednesday, has been at the absolute center of Supreme Court confirmations for three decades, as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and as a leading lawyer in the Clinton and Obama administrations.

And Klain himself did not bypass the Third Branch. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he served as a Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 and 1988.

He traversed all three branches simultaneously in spring 1993 when President Bill Clinton chose Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a high court vacancy.

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