OPINION: Biden's Supreme Court pick, Ketanji Brown Jackson, eminently qualified to serve as justice
Last April, President Joe Biden nominated Jackson to the seat being vacated by Attorney General Merrick Garland on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and she was confirmed by a bipartisan majority that included Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, later that June.
When Jackson is confirmed to the Supreme Court, she will be in good company making the jump from the D.C. Circuit. Chief Justice John Roberts, and Associate Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh were judges on that bench before their promotions. It’s also worth noting that both former Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg made the same transition to the nation’s highest court.
It’s worth noting that during the 1980 general election, Ronald Reagan made a similar pledge to appoint the first woman to the Supreme Court. And, with the death of Justice Ginsburg in 2020, President Trump announced he would replace her with a woman, eventually nominating Barrett. It would take 178 years after our nation’s founding for the first non-White man to be appointed and confirmed to the Supreme Court with nomination of Thurgood Marshall in 1967.
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