White House unveils Supreme Court nomination team
The White House is formally tapping three outside advisers who are veterans of politics and communications to help shepherd President Biden’s eventual Supreme Court pick through the Senate confirmation process.
The new team is led by former senator Doug Jones (D-Ala.), whose selection as the Supreme Court nominee’s guide was made public this week. The two others are Minyon Moore, political director in the Clinton White House who is tasked with mobilizing a nationwide constellation of outside groups to build support for Biden’s nominee, and Ben LaBolt, who served as both campaign and White House spokesman for former president Barack Obama. LaBolt will be advising on communications and messaging.
Jones, who will be the nominee’s official guide through the Senate, earned bipartisan plaudits from colleagues in his relatively short tenure as an elected politician on Capitol Hill. He was also a finalist for attorney general in the Biden administration — a job that went to Merrick Garland — and served as U.S. attorney when he won convictions of two Ku Klux Klan members in the 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girls in Birmingham, Ala.
Moore, a principal at the firm Dewey Square Group, has a political background that extends back decades, including on the presidential campaigns of the Rev. Jesse Jackson and former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. She was a senior adviser on former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, as well as chief operating officer of the Democratic National Committee.
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