Friday, March 29

Biden will appoint African-American judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US Supreme Court


The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has decided to propose the judge of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Ketanji Brown Jackson as his chosen one to fill the vacancy in the Supreme Court, as he has advanced the AP agency. If the Senate confirms her appointment, Jackson will become the first black woman to serve on a court that supported racial segregation decades ago.

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With Jackson, Biden fulfills his campaign promise to make a historic appointment and diversify the court, which was made up exclusively of white men for nearly two centuries. The chosen one would be the first former public defender of the high court, although she also has the elite legal experience of other judges.

Jackson would also be the second black person to serve on the current court – conservative Justice Clarence Thomas is the other – and only the third ever. If confirmed by the Senate, she would replace Justice Stephen Breyer, the longest-serving member of the court’s Democratic chairman-appointed members, who announced last month that he would retire at the end of the court’s current term this summer.

Although his confirmation would not change the ideological balance of the court – the conservatives would maintain their majority of six to three – it would be another milestone: the three judges appointed by Democratic presidents would be women.

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The name of the 51-year-old progressive-leaning Jackson has sounded like Biden’s top choice since she was confirmed to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals last year.

Having served as a Washington DC district judge since 2013, Jackson was confirmed by the Senate to the Court of Appeals in June 2021. Since she appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year, her hearings will likely confirmation are fast, According to Democratic spokesmensince senators have already examined his record.

Jackson grew up in Miami with his parents, who were teachers. She was a high school debate star and later a national public speaking champion. She studied law at Harvard University, where she was editor of the faculty’s flagship publication, the Harvard Law Review. He was a legal assistant to three federal judges, including Judge Stephen Breyer, whom he will replace. According Timeher former colleagues and friends describe her as a meticulous, sensible person and a good companion.

Jackson can bring a variety of professional experiences that the high court currently lacks, not having built a career as a prosecutor or corporate attorney. She was a public defender from 2005 to 2007, and in this position she handled the legal defense, for example, of indigents.

His most notable decisions in the District Court included blocking the Trump Administration’s attempts to expedite deportations, to cut teen pregnancy prevention grants, and to shield a former White House adviser, Don McGahn, from testifying before Congress about Trump’s efforts to obstruct a Russia investigation.

“Presidents are not kings,” he wrote in 2019, ruling that McGahn had to obey a congressional subpoena seeking his testimony about Mr Trump’s actions. “They have no subjects, bound by loyalty or blood, whose destiny they have the right to control.”



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