- White House praises ‘exceptionally qualified nominee’
- Jackson, if confirmed, will replace retiring Stephen Breyer
Joe Biden on Friday nominated judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the supreme court, seeking to elevate a Black woman to the nation’s highest court for the first time in its 232-year history.
Jackson, 51, was nominated to succeed justice Stephen Breyer, 83, for whom she clerked. Breyer, the most senior jurist in the court’s three-member liberal wing, will retire at the end of the court’s current session this summer.
