President Joe Biden has nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
In brief remarks, Jackson said she was “truly humbled by the extraordinary honor of this nomination.” https://t.co/2ZUJF2cpEg pic.twitter.com/LWme8nGiOM
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Ketanji Brown Jackson's U.S. Supreme Court nod follows multifaceted legal career https://t.co/JZoF46h19a pic.twitter.com/ag9FntOk4z
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… The Senate voted 53-44 last year to confirm Jackson as a member of the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she has authored two majority opinions including one favoring public sector unions that challenged a regulation issued under Republican former President Donald Trump that restricted their bargaining power.
She was part of a three-judge panel that ruled in December against Trump’s bid to prevent White House records from being handed over to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack by a mob of his supporters. The Supreme Court subsequently declined to block that decision.
Jackson also was part of a three-judge panel that refused last August to block the Biden administration’s COVID-19 pandemic-related residential eviction moratorium, a decision later overturned by the Supreme Court.
Catherine Stetson, a Washington lawyer who has appeared before Jackson in court many times, said the nominee has all the qualities of a good judge: “She is practical and intuitive and curious and courteous and always impeccably prepared.”…
Jackson in 2017 described herself as a “professional vagabond” earlier in her legal career, moving from job to job as she sought a work-life balance while raising a family. She and husband Patrick Jackson, a surgeon, have two daughters.
She worked from 2005 to 2007 as a court-appointed lawyer paid by the government to represent criminal defendants who could not afford counsel. Among her clients was Khi Ali Gul, an Afghan detainee at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The United States sent him back to Afghanistan in 2014 when she was no longer involved in the case.
Jackson worked from 2002 to 2004 for Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer known for overseeing compensation programs including one for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States…
Republican former House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, whose brother-in-law is her husband’s twin brother, is among Jackson’s fans.
“Now our politics may differ,” Ryan said at her 2013 Senate confirmation hearing, “but my praise for Ketanji’s intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal.”
Now that President Biden has officially named Ketanji Brown Jackson as his Supreme Court pick, Democrats are hoping to move quick in getting her confirmed.
Here's a look at what happens next.https://t.co/w6FW0r6AOk
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