“I believe it’s time that we have a court that reflects the full talents and greatness of our nation,” President Biden said while introducing his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
“As we watch freedom and liberty under attack abroad, I’m here to fulfill my responsibilities under the Constitution to preserve freedom and liberty,” Biden said in an event at the White House on Friday afternoon.
Biden called Jackson on Thursday night to offer her the nomination, according to a source familiar. Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and senior White House staff were notifying lawmakers and outside groups of the decision Friday morning.The nomination comes exactly two years after Biden made his promise during the 2020 presidential campaign to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court.by a 53-44 vote with the support of three Senate Republicans. Only David Souter, appointed by George W.
Graham is one of the three Republicans — along with Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — who voted for Jackson during her previous confirmation. Jackson also served eight years as a federal trial judge in Washington. At her confirmation hearing for that position, she received an endorsement from former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who is related by marriage.
“When people ask me why I decided to go into the legal profession,” she said in a 2017 speech, “I often tell the story of how, when I was in preschool, I would sit at the dining room table doing my homework with my father. He had all his law books stacked up, and I had all my coloring books stacked up.”
Jackson spent seven years in private practice and was also an assistant public defender in Washington, representing defendants who could not afford to hire a lawyer. One notable case involved a terrorism detainee at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, who she said should not be held without charges or trial.
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