Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to become first black woman on supreme court
Source: The Guardian
Joe Biden on Friday nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the supreme court, seeking to elevate a Black woman to the nation’s highest court for the first time in its 232-year history.
Biden’s decision to nominate Jackson to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer, for whom she clerked, sets up a fierce confirmation battle in the deeply partisan and evenly-divided Senate. Breyer, 83, the most senior jurist in the court’s three-member liberal wing, will retire at the end of the court’s current session this summer.
Click here to read the full article published by The Guardian on 25 February 2022.
Joe Biden on Friday nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the supreme court, seeking to elevate a Black woman to the nation’s highest court for the first time in its 232-year history.
Biden’s decision to nominate Jackson to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer, for whom she clerked, sets up a fierce confirmation battle in the deeply partisan and evenly-divided Senate. Breyer, 83, the most senior jurist in the court’s three-member liberal wing, will retire at the end of the court’s current session this summer.
Click here to read the full article published by The Guardian on 25 February 2022.