AP Sources: Biden Taps Ketanji Brown Jackson for High Court

AP Sources: Biden Taps Ketanji Brown Jackson for High Court

Associated Press

President Joe Biden will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

AP sources: Biden taps Ketanji Brown Jackson for high courtBy COLLEEN LONG, MICHAEL BALSAMO and ZEKE MILLERAssociated PressThe Associated PressWASHINGTON [SIC]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, according to two people familiar with the matter, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.

In Jackson, Biden delivers on a campaign promise to make the historic appointment and to further diversify a court that was made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries. He has chosen an attorney who would be the high court’s first former public defender, though she also possesses the elite legal background of other justices. Read the rest at breitbart.com.

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