BREAKING President Joe Biden will nominate U.S. Appeals Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his first pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, ABC News has learned.
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court, elevating an African American woman for the first time to a seat on the high court bench, ABC News has learned.
Jackson, a former clerk to retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, has more than eight years experience on the federal bench, following a path through the judiciary traveled by many nominees before her.Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the most senior member of the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal wing, will retire from the bench.
"I think she's qualified for the job. She has a different philosophy than I do, but it's been that way the whole time," Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said of Jackson last year. He was one of three GOP Senators, including Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, who voted to confirm Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Jackson joined a unanimous vote to reduce federal sentencing guidelines for some nonviolent drug offenders and make the changes retroactive - moves backed by members of both parties. Earlier this month, Judge Jackson published her first appeals court opinion - a unanimous decision in favor of a large union of federal government workers contesting new federal labor guidelines that would have made collective bargaining more difficult. Jackson concluded the changes were"arbitrary and capricious" in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.
Rachel Barkow, an NYU law professor, former Harvard classmate of Jackson and former member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, predicted Jackson could help"dial down the temperature" around the Court if confirmed. During her appeals court confirmation hearing last year, Republicans questioned Jackson on issues of race; ties to progressive legal groups; her rulings against the Trump administration; the impact of sentencing reductions; and her work as a public defender for Guantanamo detainees.
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