WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden is looking for at least three judges to fill a vacancy in the Supreme Court as he prepares to deliver on his campaign pledge to nominate the first black woman to the country’s Supreme Court, according to aides and allies.
Biden and Judge Stephen Fryer An event is expected to take place at the White House on Thursday, said a person who does not have the authority to formally announce Prairie’s retirement plans and discuss planning in public in advance.
Preliminary arguments about the successor were made by U.S. Circuit Judge Kodanji Brown Jackson, U.S. District Judge J. Focusing on Michelle Childs and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Krueger, four people familiar with the matter spoke anonymously to discuss the White House debate. Jackson and Krueger have long been seen as potential candidates.
Since Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, he has focused on nominating a variety of judges to the federal bench, establishing five black women in the federal appellate courts, and three nominations pending in the Senate. Other potential candidates for the Supreme Court may come from that group, Biden aides and associates said, especially since all recent Supreme Court candidates have been federal appellate judges.
“He has a strong selection committee, among other sources.
By the end of his first year, Biden had won the conviction of 40 judges, much higher than President Ronald Reagan. The White House estimates that 80% of them are women and 53% are of color.
Jackson, 51, was nominated by President Barack Obama as a district court judge. Biden elevated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Circuit District of Columbia. Early in his career, he was also Prayer’s law writer.
Childs was nominated by a federal judge in South Carolina, but has not yet been confirmed to serve on the same circuit court. Representative James Claibern, whose name was partially revealed because he was a favorite of some high-ranking lawmakers, including the DS.C
Krooger, a graduate of Harvard and Yale Law School, is a former Supreme Court clerk and has argued a dozen cases before judges as a federal prosecutor.
Two sources confirmed to The Associated Press on Wednesday that the 83-year-old Fryer will retire at the end of the summer. They spoke anonymously so as not to prevent Prayer’s formal announcement.
But the Senate could confirm a succession before a formal vacancy, so the White House began to work and it was expected that it would take at least a few weeks for an appointment to be formalized.
Biden said Wednesday that he was not going to go any further than Prayer’s announcement.
“Every justice should have a chance to decide what he or she is going to do and declare it for themselves,” Biden said. “Let him publish whatever statement he is going to make and I will be happy to talk about it later.”
When Biden ran for the White House, he said he would make history by choosing a black woman if he had the chance to nominate someone to the court. And he reiterated that promise.
“I’m proud and proud to appoint the first African American woman president, because it has to be like the country. It’s been a long time coming,” Fiden said in February 2020. Shortly before the presidential election in South Carolina.
Adding a black woman to the court represents a series of primaries – four female judges and two black judges serving simultaneously on a court of nine. Judge Clarence Thomas is the second black judge of the court and second only to Turkut Marshall.
And Biden will have the opportunity to show that black voters are increasingly frustrated With a president they helped to choose whether he was serious about their concerns, especially when he was unable to pass the Right to Vote Act.
At the same time, it does not change the ideological structure of another liberal judiciary in place of Prairie. The Conservatives are 6-3 ahead of the Liberals, and Donald Trump’s three candidates have already made the Conservative court even more conservative.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, DNO, said Biden’s candidate would “receive an immediate hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee and be deliberately considered and confirmed at all speeds by the full U.S. Senate.”
But Republicans are particularly upset about Judge Brett Kavanagh’s controversial 2018 trial. However, Democrats have 50 votes and a tie-breaker in Vice President Kamala Harris, who must confirm a candidate.
Republicans who changed Senate rules during the Trump era have resigned to allow a simple majority of Supreme Court candidates to be confirmed. Sen. from South Carolina, an influential Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. In a statement, Lindsay Graham said, “If all Democrats unite – I hope – they have the power to replace Judge Prairie in 2022 without a Republican vote. Support. “
Nevertheless, Democrats were unable to include all of their members in Pyton’s social and environmental spending agenda. Or move the voting right bill forward.
As a senator, Biden served as chairman of the Judicial Committee, overseeing six Supreme Court affirmations, including Prairie, from 1987 to 1995.
One person at the center of Biden’s action is Ron Klein, a former Supreme Court law secretary and chief adviser to the panel.
Biden’s other two black women are also contenders for federal appeals courts: Holly Thomas, a longtime civil rights lawyer she’s nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, and her former public defender, Candace Jackson-Akiwumi. To the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th round.
Biden can pick someone from outside the judiciary, but it seems less so. One rival will be the head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Sherlyn Eiffel, 59. She has been head of the fund since 2013 and has announced her resignation in the spring.
The Supreme Court has had three women since 2010, when Obama appointed Judge Elena Cagan to replace John Paul Stevens, who is retiring. Kagan Obama’s other candidate, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined the court’s first Latin judge and Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. When Ginsberg died in September 2020, eight days later, Trump announced that he had elected Amy Connie Barrett.
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Associated Press writer Mark Sherman contributed to the report.
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