Biden pick for Supreme Court represented terrorist suspects as public defender

President Biden's nominee for the Supreme Court advocated on behalf of suspected terrorists as a federal public defender, castigating the U.S. government for some of its approaches to the so-called War on Terror.

The White House announced Friday that Biden has selected Ketanji Brown Jackson to be his nominee to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the nation's highest court.

One potentially major hurdle in the Senate confirmation process could be her record defending people detained at the Guantanamo Bay military prison as enemy combatants for their alleged role in terrorist activities.

In one case, Jackson defended Guantanamo Bay detainee Khiali-Gul, whom the Defense Department said was a Taliban intelligence officer in charge of a terrorist cell planning to attack a U.S. base in Afghanistan in 2002.