An upcoming hearing on Childs' nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has been delayed.
That led to speculation that the Biden administration was considering Childs as a potential successor to Breyer, and a White House spokesperson later confirmed she was being considered.Why the GOP Won't Put up Much Fight Over Biden's Supreme Court Nominee
"Judge Childs is among multiple individuals under consideration for the Supreme Court, and we are not going to move her nomination on the Court of Appeals while the president is considering her for this vacancy," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said on Friday. "At the same time, reporting indicating that the president is only seriously considering three potential nominees is incorrect," he added.
There has been significant speculation about who Biden will nominate to the nation's highest court after the president said he wouldJudge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Leondra Kruger of the Supreme Court of California are considered serious contenders for the nomination.
Childs currently sits on the U.S. District Court of South Carolina and was already nominated to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. That nomination is on hold while the Biden administration chooses whether or not to name her to the Supreme Court.
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