'This is beyond politics,' Democratic Congressman Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, the House majority whip, called for Republicans and Democrats alike to support the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court
, but said Jackson will also bring a new perspective to the nation's highest court with her experience representing criminal defendants.
Jackson, a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School, has the more"traditional" educational background of Supreme Court nominees, Clyburn said, with eight of the court's current members having gone to either Harvard or Yale law schools.
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