President Joe Biden will announce his nomination at Supreme Court on Friday with federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, considered the undisputed favorite.
The exact time of the message remains incorrect, CNN reported due to the ongoing situation with Ukraine.
But Friday marks two years since Biden promised to go down in history by nominating the first black woman to the Supreme Court. He made a vow during the primary debate in 2020 in South Carolina.
Biden cut back on demand to replace retired Judge Stephen Brier to the top three: Jackson, 51, Michelle Childs, 55, and Leondra Krueger, 45.
Jackson is a judge in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; Leondra Krueger sits on California The Supreme Court, and J. Michelle Childs is a judge in the Federal District Court of Columbia, South Carolina.
The first step in the process is Biden to make the official proposal of the nominee, which he was expected to make on Thursday evening or Friday morning. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has promised a speedy confirmation in court of the choice to increase the time.
His election is not expected to change the inclination of the conservative court, but his focus on younger nominations will ensure that his choice will have a long-term impact on his decisions.
According to sources close to the issue, President Joe Biden has chosen his candidate for the Supreme Court. Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, is a judge in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Biden promised to reveal his nomination by the end of February, but two sources close to the trial told CBS News that he had made his decision Thursday night. Another candidate is 45-year-old Leondra Krueger, who is in the California Supreme Court
Also a candidate is Michelle Childs, 55, a judge in the District Court of Columbia, South Carolina.
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, a judge in the U.S. District Court of Appeals, has no experience typical of other nominees.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is reportedly the leading candidate for the upcoming vacancy in the Supreme Court
While many judges have left their mark as prosecutors, Jackson has spent two years as a federal public defender representing poor defendants.
She has also served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, an independent agency set up by Congress to address differences in sentences.
And Jackson has personal experience with harsh drug crimes convictions in the United States – his uncle was sentenced to life in prison in 1989 for possession of cocaine.
After graduating, she worked for a number of elite law firms in Boston and Washington, D.C., as well as a lawyer for Breyer.
Jackson was nominated as a judge in the U.S. District Court by former President Barack Obama in 2013 and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in Biden in March 2021.
Her most remarkable decision came in 2019, when she said that former White House adviser to President Donald Trump must obey a summons from Congress.
“Presidents are not kings,” Jackson wrote.
Jackson is married to a surgeon. They have two daughters.
– Associated Press
Legal experts believe Jackson may be Biden’s choice after the U.S. District Court of Appeals violated its usual procedure by issuing an opinion on Thursday, unlike its typical schedule for Tuesday and Friday.
Jackson reportedly was in the majority in the 2-1 case and would most likely resign if the case was dropped after her nomination, which will split the commission.
Legal experts said CNN that the theory stems from a similar scenario that unfolded when current Judge Brett Cavanaugh was nominated.
“In part, this is because we saw a similar scene unfold in July 2018 with then-District Judge Brett Cavanaugh,” Steve Vladek, an analyst at CNN’s Supreme Court and a professor at the University of Texas Law School, told the paper.
If Biden makes the announcement on Friday, it will mark two years since the primary debate in 2020 in South Carolina, when he first pledged to choose the first African-American woman-justice
Minion Moore, an advocate for critical race theory on the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, will advise President Joe Biden on his choice for SCOTUS.
“DC Circuit issued a 2-1 decision on Monday – a day when no decisions are usually made – in a case where Cavanaugh was in the majority. If the case was dropped after his nomination was announced a few hours later, he would probably withdraw and the commission would split 1-1.
“It is not difficult to imagine that the same calculation explains why this 2-1 decision with Judge Jackson in the majority came out today – another day when the court does not usually issue hasty decisions,” he concluded.
The case on Thursday was an unjustified decision on an urgent issue, a DC Circuit court official told CNN, adding that the court always has the opportunity to issue opinions at any time and has done so many times over the years on urgent issues.
The case involved a dispute between a Connecticut power plant and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, CNN reported. Earlier this month, DC Circuit intervened to suspend an order from FERC that would block the plant from selling energy to consumers.
Thursday’s ruling was a court ruling explaining why they issued the emergency order and was written by Jackson and District Judge Neomi Rao.
Another candidate, California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Krueger, was seen Thursday morning in her native California.
And a car, accompanied by state police, was seen leaving the South Carolina home of the other finalist, District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs. The windows were covered with plastic bags, so it is unclear whether Childs was in the car, CNN reported.
Vice President Kamala Harris also sparked speculation that there was a message on the horizon when she postponed her trip to Louisiana, scheduled for Friday.
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Wednesday that Biden would not delay revealing his nomination in February, despite the crisis in Ukraine, which means the announcement will come no later than Monday.
Jackson was transferred to the DC Circuit last year from Biden and previously served for nearly a decade in the DC Federal District Court. She was also once an employee of Judge Stephen Brier and has long been considered a preferred candidate for his deputy.
Democrats today believe in racial discrimination, Ted Cruz told Fox News on Sunday as he criticized President Joe Biden’s promise to elect a black woman to the Supreme Court.
Earlier this week, Biden highlighted his appointment as Clinton’s confidant and Kamal’s girlfriend, Harris Mignon Moore, to help him choose the first black female Supreme Court judge.
However, he never mentioned that she was Black lives matter member of the Management Board, CRT promoter and supports the Defund the Police movement.
Moore’s dark blue political powers date back to Jesse Jackson’s 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns.
But when the president announced that he would set up a council of advisers to help him with his SCOTTISH A strategy for selection and confirmation, he gently spread Moore’s story.
Biden also angered Senator Ted Cruz, who stepped up attacks on the president’s strategy for electing a candidate for the Supreme Court on Sunday, saying it would be illegal for anyone else to specify the race and gender of job candidates.
‘Democrats “Today we believe in racial discrimination,” Cruz said Fox News Sunday.
“They are committed to this as a political proposal. I think it’s wrong to stand up and say, “We’re going to discriminate.”
Cruz said that made 94 percent of the population inadmissible, including Merrick Garland, who was nominated by Barack Obama for a seat on the Supreme Court.
“If you happen to nominate a judge who is African-American, great,” he continued.
“But you know what, if Fox News publishes a publication, we’re looking for a new host for Fox News Sunday and we’re only going to hire an African-American, a Latin American or an Indian, that would be illegal.”
Leading conservatives – including former Vice President Mike Pence – have expressed concern about Biden’s promise, warning that he could ignore the best man for the job.
But supporters say it will help the court be a better representation of America.
And the White House earlier called on Cruz to be hypocritical about the election of President Donald Trump to Amy Connie Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who died in September 2020.
“A little over a year ago, the previous president also promised to elect a woman to the Supreme Court,” spokeswoman Jen Psaki said earlier this month.
“Not only were there no complaints about the nomination of a particular demographic group, from the same angles, but there was widespread praise for the current Judge Barrett on that basis, with Republican lawmakers saying they thought it was positive for women in America.
“So, take Senator Cruz himself, he had no objection to Donald Trump’s promise to nominate a woman in 2020. I repeat: No objection at all.”
Connie Barrett was confirmed in October 2020, hastened by Republicans with one eye in the upcoming presidential election.