BREAKING: President Joe Biden on Friday will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman tapped for the high court.
to the Supreme Court, according to the Associated Press, citing a person familiar with the matter.
The current court includes three women, one of whom is the court’s first Latina, Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Former President Barack Obama nominated her to be a district court judge, and Biden elevated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Kruger, 45, graduated from Harvard and Yale’s law school, where she served as a law clerk on the high court, before serving in the department as an assistant to the solicitor general and as acting deputy solicitor general. During her tenure in the Office of the Solicitor General, she argued 12 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court’s behalf of the federal government.
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