US President Joe Biden has decided to nominate a federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first black woman to serve in the US Supreme Court, the White House announced.
The decision fulfills a Biden campaign commitment.
If approved by the Senate, Jackson will be the second black judge on the Supreme Court – the judge Clarence ThomasRepublican, is the other – and only the third in history.
She will also be just the sixth woman to serve on the Supreme Court, and for the first time four women will be members of the nine-member Court. Today’s Court consists of three women, one of whom is the Court’s first Latin American, Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Jackson will join to the liberal minority a court dominated by conservatives considering measures such as restricting the right to abortion.
Biden is filling the position that will be vacated by Judge Steven Breyer, 83, who is retiring at the end of his term this summer. Jackson, 51, worked as Breyer’s lawyer at the beginning of her legal career.
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