Fri Feb 25, 2022 – 11:19 am EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — The White House announced Friday morning that D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is President Joe Biden’s choice to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court, fulfilling a campaign promise to make the nation’s highest court more “diverse.”
“Judge Jackson is one of our nation’s brightest legal minds and has an unusual breadth of experience in our legal system, giving her the perspective to be an exceptional Justice,” the White House said in its announcement of the nomination.
Jackson is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, and a former editor of the Harvard Law Review. Former President Barack Obama appointed her for Vice Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission in 2009 and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2012, and Biden appointed her to her current judgeship last year. She previously worked as a federal public defender and as a law clerk for the outgoing Breyer, whose retirement was announced last month.
The announcement makes no mention of Biden’s pledge that his first Supreme Court
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