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    Biden names Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court in historic pick

    by David G. Savage and Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times Feb 25, 2022 4 minutes
    President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, left, to serve as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from the Cross Hall of the White House on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022, in Washington, DC.

    WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in a history-making choice that would make her the first Black woman to ascend to the nation’s highest court.

    “For too long, our courts haven’t looked like America,” the president said Friday, announcing the nomination at the White House with Jackson and Vice President Kamala Harris.

    Jackson, 51, a U.S. appeals court judge in Washington, D.C., had been the front-runner for the Supreme Court seat ever since Justice Stephen G. Breyer, 83, announced last month he was retiring.

    The court has had only two Black justices: Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights pioneer and leading liberal, served from 1967 to 1991. He in turn was replaced by Justice Clarence Thomas, who

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