Posted on 02/25/2022 1:41:55 PM PST by bitt
From the moment President Biden promised to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been the likeliest pick. And that is who he he nominated Friday to fill retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s seat. “She cares about making sure that democracy works for the American people,” Biden said Friday as he nominated her, also saying “For too long the government and the courts have not looked like America.” Here’s what you need to know about her. She’s got a background made for a Supreme Court nominee: Jackson grew up in Miami, her mom a public teacher and her father a lawyer for the school board. One of her uncles was the city’s police chief. She was a high school debate champion, and she graduated from Harvard Law, where she was an editor on the Harvard Law Review.
She has been a federal judge for nine years, and last year Biden appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, widely seen as a waiting bench for likely Supreme Court candidates. Before that, she was a public defender and clerk for Breyer.
Jackson is married, with two daughters. She’s 51 and would be one of the younger justices. (Breyer, the oldest, is 83. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the youngest, is 50.)
She also shared Friday that she shares a birthday with the first Black woman ever appointed to the federal judiciary, Constance Baker Motley.
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SCOTUS material deserves more than merely melanin and estrogen.
The selection of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court was widely expected. From the start of his administration, Joe Biden has made it clear that his top priority is paying back the liberal Arabella Advisors dark money network that spent over one billion dollars to help elect him and Senate Democrats. These Arabella-advised groups seek nothing less than the appointment of politicians in robes who will rubber stamp their left-wing political agendas from the bench.
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