Schumer to meet with Biden's Supreme Court pick Wednesday
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will meet with federal appeals court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, launching the start of Supreme Court nominee's Capitol Hill charm offensive.
The meeting, announced by Schumer's office, comes after President Biden said Friday that he was nominating Jackson to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer, who intends to retire over the summer assuming his successor has been confirmed by the Senate.
It's Jackson's first announced meeting with a senator, in what is expected to be weeks of one-on-one sit-downs with Jackson, who would be the first Black woman Supreme Court justice if she's confirmed.
Democrats are hoping to have Jackson, who would be the first Black woman Supreme Court justice, confirmed by April 8, when the Senate is scheduled to leave town for a two-week break.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson endorsed by Republican legal heavyweight
Judge Thomas R. Griffith, a retired Bush appointee to the D.C. Circuit of Appeals, endorsed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court in a letter written to the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Jackson's nomination kicks off a monthlong process to confirm what would be the first Black woman to sit on the nation's highest court. The Biden administration has been trying to court Republican votes in the 50-50 Senate, with uncertain success.
What we're watching: Griffith is the first of several Republican legal luminaries who'll be speaking out this week in favor of Jackson, a person familiar with the matter told Axios.
Griffith was nominated in 2004 by Republican President George W. Bush to serve on the same appellate court on which Jackson now sits. He's a graduate of Brigham Young University and has been active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the same faith as a Republican courted by Democrats, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah).
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