President Joe Biden will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his pick for the Supreme Court.
“I’m proud to announce that I am nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court,” Biden tweeted on Friday morning. “Currently serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, she is one of our nation’s brightest legal minds and will be an exceptional Justice.”
Jackson, a Harvard graduate, currently serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington circuit. During her time at Harvard, she led protests against a student who draped a Confederate flag from his dorm window and once served as the Harvard Law Review editor. She has clerked for three federal judges in the past, including Justice Breyer from 1999-2000.
If nominated, Jackson would be coming directly from the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the second-most-important court in the country after the Supreme Court.
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