Judge Michelle Childs being considered for Supreme Court, White House confirms

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Judge Michelle Childs being considered for Supreme Court, White House confirms

The White House confirmed on Friday that South Carolina District Court Judge Michelle Childs is being considered as a replacement for retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court.

"Judge Childs is among multiple individuals under consideration for the Supreme Court, and we are not going to move her nomination on the Court of Appeals while the President is considering her for this vacancy," White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates told Fox News in a statement. "At the same time, reporting indicating that the President is only seriously considering three potential nominees is incorrect."

Childs had been scheduled to appear at a hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as part of the confirmation process for the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for which Biden nominated her in December.

Childs has earned the support of House Majority Whip James Clyburn, who was instrumental in urging Biden to pledge that he would nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court during the 2020 presidential campaign. Clyburn endorsed Biden the day after the pledge was made.....

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-confirms-south-carolinas-michelle-childs-being-considered-for-supreme-court

[Elderberry]

J. Michelle Childs Fact Sheet : https://www.afj.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/J.-Michelle-Childs.pdf

Alliance for Justice: https://www.afj.org/document/j-michelle-childs-fact-sheet/

On January 10, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Judge J. Michelle Childs to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She is nominated to the seat being vacated by Judge David Tatel, who is retiring. Judge Childs has most recently distinguished herself as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. Before taking the bench, Judge Childs established expertise on labor and employment law in both private practice and state government. She also served as a state court judge in Columbia, South Carolina.

At the time of her confirmation to the District Court, Judge Childs was the third woman and third Black American to become a federal judge in South Carolina. If confirmed to the District of Columbia Circuit, she will bring a wealth of legal experience and important demographic diversity to the court.

Early Life and Education

Judge Childs was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1966. At age 13, she moved to South Carolina with her mother. She was the first person in her family to attend college, earning scholarships for both college and law school. She received her B.S. from the University of South Florida Honors College, cum laude, in 1988, and her J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1991. Judge Childs also holds a M.A. from the University of South Carolina School of Business and an LL.M. from Duke University School of Law.

Legal Experience

After law school, Judge Childs began her career as an Associate at Nexsen Pruet, LLC. Her primary practice areas included general litigation, employment and labor law, and domestic relations. Judge Childs represented clients ranging from individuals to governmental agencies and corporations and participated in approximately 25 trials during her tenure at the firm. She was named partner within nine years, becoming the first Black woman partner in a major law firm in the state of South Carolina.

Thereafter, Judge Childs received two gubernatorial appointments from Governor James H. Hodges. From 2000 to 2002 she served as Deputy Director for the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation’s Division of Labor. In this role, she administered the following programs: wages and child labor, Occupational Safety Health Administration (OSHA), OSHA voluntary programs, labor-management mediation, elevators and amusement rides, and migrant labor. From 2002 to 2006, Judge Childs served as Commissioner on the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission. As Commissioner, Judge Childs adjudicated issues related to compensability, medical treatment, temporary disability benefits, and partial or permanent disability awards for employees who sustained workplace injuries. She also reviewed appeals from other commissioners’ orders. Judge Childs’ experience working for two state government agencies will suit her well on the D.C. Circuit, which features a heavy administrative law docket.

Judicial Experience

From 2006 to 2010, Judge Childs served as a South Carolina Circuit Court Judge, the state’s trial court of general jurisdiction. She was elected to serve as an at-large Circuit Court judge by the South Carolina General Assembly in 2006 and fulfilled the remaining three years of her predecessor’s unexpired term. In 2009, the General Assembly re-elected her to the Circuit Court. Judge Childs distinguished herself on the state bench, serving as the Chief Administrative Judge for General Sessions, the state’s Criminal Court, and Chief Administrative Judge for the state’s Business Court. In the state’s criminal court, she initiated an effort to help clear a backlog of criminal charges that had languished for as long as three years without going to trial. Judge Childs also occasionally served as an Acting Justice for the South Carolina Supreme Court.

More at link.

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This promises to gain the support of Lindsey Graham to approve a home state choice to the court.

[Smokin Joe]

She ticks more than the "Black" and "Female" boxes, though:
Using the COVID excuse, this ruling enabled (possible, and limited by the SCSC) voter fraud:
 

Judge Childs struck down a law requiring voters to sign absentee-ballot envelopes in the presence of a witness for the November 2020 election, citing the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. She reasoned that the challengers were “substantially likely” to be able to show that the combination of the witness requirement and the “unique risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic” infringe on the challengers’ constitutional right to vote.
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However, the Supreme Court ultimately overturned Judge Childs’ ruling, but made an exception for ballots cast before it acted and received within two days.

And this one "protected" mandates, again using the COVID gambit to rule in favor of totalitarian edicts.

In Rhoades v. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, Judge Childs protected the health and safety of more than 5,000 workers by denying a motion to block a COVID-19 vaccine requirement enacted by the Savannah River Nuclear Solutions. In denying the motion, Judge Childs explained that the vaccine rules did not equate to the unlawful practice of medicine in South Carolina — a pillar of the plaintiffs’ argument — and emphasized that no one was being forcibly vaccinated. Moreover, the plaintiffs did not meet the necessary burden to award a preliminary injunction.

Source of quotes: https://www.afj.org/document/j-michelle-childs-fact-sheet/

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This promises to gain the support of Lindsey Graham to approve a home state choice to the court.

Right on cue

Graham: Biden Nominating a Black Woman to the Supreme Court Is Not Affirmative Action
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that President Joe Biden’s promise to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court was not affirmative action.

Anchor Margaret Brennan asked, “Your colleague, Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi said, ‘Picking a female black Supreme Court Justice is affirmative racial discrimination.’ He questioned any potential impartiality from any of the candidates named. Nikki Haley, also from South Carolina, tweeted the president should have a race or gender litmus test. President Reagan promised to nominate a woman, Sandra Day O’Connor. Why is this different?”

Graham said, “It’s not different to me. Put me in the camp of making sure the court and other institutions look like America. You know, we make a real effort as Republicans to recruit women and people of color to make the party look more like America. Affirmative action is picking somebody not as well qualified for past wrongs.”

Discussing South Carolina U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs, Graham said, “Michelle Childs is incredibly qualified. There’s no affirmative action component if you pick her. She is highly qualified.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/01/30/graham-biden-nominating-a-black-woman-to-the-supreme-court-is-not-affirmative-action/