BREAKING: Pres. Biden is expected to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court, elevating an African American woman for the first time to a seat on the high court bench, ABC News has learned.
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MORE: Who is potential Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson? And the inside story behind her name Born in D.C. but raised in Miami, Jackson comes from an elite legal pedigree as a graduate of Harvard Law School but also has experience representing everyday Americans in the legal system as a federal public defender.She would be the first federal public defender to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and the first justice since Thurgood Marshall to have criminal defense experience.
The president is impressed by her"experience in roles at all levels of the justice system, her character and her legal brilliance," White House spokesman Andrew Bates said this month. On the bench, her jurisprudence has widely been considered mainstream and measured, legal scholars say. She authored 600 opinions while on the U.S. District Court for D.C.; only 12 were reversed, according to data compiled by the Alliance for Justice, a progressive legal advocacy group.
Jackson's former colleagues and associates describe her approach as"Breyer-esque," qualities Biden has explicitly sought to replicate on the bench: moderate, pragmatic, and a consensus-builder. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said this week that the nominee will be"respectfully treated and thoroughly vetted." Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Sunday that his party will not engage in"personal slime attacks" but will scrutinize the candidate's record.
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