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Biden’s groundbreaking supreme court choice is born to her new role Moira Donegan

he has always wanted this. Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee to fill the supreme court seat left vacant by the retirement of Stephen Breyer at the end of this term, said she wanted to become a judge one day in her Miami school’s yearbook. By then she was already a champion in national oratory competitions. Her parents – an attorney and a school principal – saw their daughter’s potential, and helped her to hoist herself from her middle-class origins on to the path followed by ambitious

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