Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court

Democrat President Joe Biden has reportedly selected his first nominee to the Supreme Court, according to a report from CNN Thursday, and intends to announce the candidate who he hopes will replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer as early as Friday. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, is reportedly to be the nominee.

The timing of the announcement remains uncertain given the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, but according to the outlet, would take place no later than Monday, the eve of Biden’s first State of the Union address.
Another possible sign that the announcement was imminent was that Vice President Kamala Harris postponed a trip to Louisiana scheduled for Friday.

A Friday announcement would correspond to two years to the day that Biden pledged during a 2020 primary debate in South Carolina that his pick would be the first African American female justice.

Biden was accused of hypocrisy for his pledge after having opposed filibustered the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, twice, while serving in the Senate. Fox News host Dana Perino, claimed that Democrats privately told media outlets they opposed Brown’s nomination because "…they didn’t want the Republicans to have a shot at nominating the first Black woman to the Supreme Court."