The growing consensus is that President Biden will make history by appointing a Black woman to replace Justice Stephen Breyer's Supreme Court seat. Here are the leading contenders:
. “I asked her to be my principal deputy solicitor general because I knew the advice she’d give me would be meticulous and deeply thought out and, most of all, honest: I cannot imagine a better justice.” Kruger earned an undergraduate degree at Harvard University and a law degree from Yale, where she served as editor in chief of theChilds, 55, a judge on South Carolina’s federal court who currently has a pending nomination before the U.S.
after a decade-long tenure as president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, might be a long-shot candidate but one with significant support from a lot of Democratic progressives. Rachel Maddow, in an interview with Ifill on Biden’s inauguration day, suggested that the longtime activist was surely on the short list for any future opening on the Supreme Court.
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