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Biden's Supreme Court pick is Ketanji Brown Jackson, people close to process say. She'd be the first Black woman in court’s history.
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Biden to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court
The president intends to name Jackson, a judge on the D.C. federal court of appeals, as his first Supreme nominee. She would be the first Black woman justice in the court's history.
9:03 AM · Feb 25, 2022
Biden to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court
By Tyler Pager, Sean Sullivan and Seung Min Kim
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President Biden will nominate federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer, according to people briefed on the process, a historic choice that fulfills the president’s pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. Jackson, 51, would also be just the third African American in the high court’s 233-year history.
A former public defender, she served as a trial court judge in Washington for eight years before Biden elevated her last year to the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She was confirmed to that court after a relatively uncontentious Senate hearing and with the backing of three Republican lawmakers.
The people who disclosed the plan spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk more freely about a sensitive matter that had not been announced publicly. Jackson, who would bring a diverse personal and professional background to the high court, would join a significantly diminished liberal wing if confirmed. She was a law clerk for Breyer in 1999, and she helped shape federal sentencing policy on the U.S. Sentencing Commission after stints at private law firms.
At the federal public defender’s office in D.C. for 2½ years, Jackson represented indigent clients in criminal cases and detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. She would be the first justice since Thurgood Marshall with significant experience as a criminal defense attorney, something often stressed by her backers.
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Breaking News: President Biden selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would become the first Black woman to serve as a justice.
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Biden Chooses Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — President Biden has selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court, two people familiar with his decision said, choosing a well-regarded federal appeals court judge who if confirmed would make history by becoming the first Black woman to serve as a justice.
In Judge Jackson, 51, Mr. Biden selected a liberal-leaning jurist who earned a measure of Republican support when he nominated her to the influential federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., last summer. If confirmed by the Senate, she would replace Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the senior member of the court’s three-member liberal wing, who announced last month that he would retire at the end of the current court term this summer if his successor was in place.
While her confirmation would not change the court’s ideological balance — conservatives appointed by Republicans would retain their 6-3 majority — it would achieve another first: all three justices appointed by Democratic presidents would be women.
Judge Jackson, who was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Miami, graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Justice Breyer’s alma mater. She went on to clerk for him during the 1999-2000 Supreme Court term.
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