After promising to pick a Black woman to nominate to the Supreme Court, he appears to be keeping that promise, with reports on Friday that Biden has “selected Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee for the Supreme Court to replace Justice Stephen Breyer, a Clinton-era appointment who recently announced his retirement.”
The Daily Wire reports:
CNN first reported the story on Friday morning, citing “a source who has been notified about the decision.” A formal announcement is expected later on Friday.
“Biden has reached a decision on his first nominee to the Supreme Court, people familiar with the selection said Thursday, with his historic selection of the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court set to be revealed as soon as Friday,” CNN reported initially on Thursday.
Biden had reportedly interviewed three women as potential nominees to be his Supreme Court justice pick, with the White House previously indicating that he would share his decision by Monday.
Biden’s three potential picks were all black women, something he promised on the campaign trial. In addition to Jackson, the president considered J. Michelle Childs of South Carolina and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger.
As we previously reported about Brown Jackson:
Judge Ketanji Onyiaka Brown Jackson clerked for the liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, worked for a private law firm, and was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review before taking the bench. Jackson would be a favorite among liberals, since in August 2018, she “dealt the Trump administration a setback in its efforts to rein in the power of federal employee unions” by ruling significant elements of three executive orders invalid.