Confirmed: POTUS has selected his Supreme Court nominee

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Just Breaking

Nancy Cordes
@nancycordes

Confirmed: @POTUS
 has selected his Supreme Court nominee, per a source familiar with the process, as first reported by @jeffzeleny
8:52 PM · Feb 24, 2022 from Washington, DC

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Jesse Rodriguez
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NBC News: Pres Biden has picked his nominee for the Supreme Court

[Hoodat]

Well, he did have breakfast with Graham today.

[Kamaji]

Now let's tear her a new one.  Turn about is fair play.

[Hoodat]

Now let's tear her a new one.  Turn about is fair play.

I'm sure she molested me when I was in college.

[Kamaji]

I'm sure she molested me when I was in college.

#MeToo!

[Gefn]

President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, according to multiple published reports, in a move that puts her on course to become the first Black woman to serve on the high court. Biden had promised to name a Black woman to the Supreme Court to take retiring Justice Stephen Breyer's spot, and Jackson has been viewed as the leading contender. Jackson currently serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and she previously worked as federal district judge as well as a clerk to Breyer.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/biden-picks-ketanji-brown-jackson-for-supreme-court-reports-2022-02-25?mod=home-page

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Biden to name Ketanji Brown Jackson, DC appeals court judge, to Supreme Court
By John Kruzel and Morgan Chalfant - 02/25/22 08:59 AM EST


President Biden will nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal appeals judge in Washington, D.C., to the Supreme Court, setting up the likely seating of the nation’s first female Black justice, a source familiar with the forthcoming announcement confirmed.

Biden is expected to make a more formal announcement of his choice later Friday.

For Jackson, her nomination culminates a meteoric rise through the federal judiciary following just eight months on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a role she was chosen for after eight years as a federal district judge in D.C.


Biden’s decision caps off a month of closely held deliberations at the White House over a replacement for Justice Stephen Breyer, who is due to retire at the conclusion of the Supreme Court’s current term this summer.

Jackson, a former Breyer clerk, is expected to round out the court’s liberal wing, which also includes Sonia Sotomayor, 67, and Elena Kagan, 61. At 51, Jackson would also bring youth, diversity and likely a more liberal outlook than the 83-year-old Breyer, known for his judicial modesty and pragmatism.

more
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/594977-biden-names-ketanji-brown-jackson-dc-appeals-court-judge-to-supreme

[Kamaji]

How much more liberal than Breyer is she?

[Hoodat]

I wonder what Lindsey Graham has to say about this?

[Kamaji]

I wonder what Lindsey Graham has to say about this?

That was probably what they discussed over breakfast yesterday.

[Hoodat]

That was probably what they discussed over breakfast yesterday.

Biden probably assured Graham that he would pick Michelle Childs.  But in reality, Biden didn't make the pick.  Someone else did.

[Wingnut]

That was probably what they discussed over breakfast yesterday.

Joe had the Tapioca Puddin and a dry muffin

[Right_in_Virginia]

KETANJI BROWN JACKSON
(202) 216-7340

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson received her commission as a United States Circuit Judge in June of 2021. From 2013 until 2021, she served a United States District Judge, and until December of 2014, she also served as a Vice Chair and Commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission.

Prior to her four years of service on the Sentencing Commission, Judge Jackson worked for three years as Of Counsel at Morrison & Foerster LLP, with a practice that focused on criminal and civil appellate litigation in both state and federal courts, as well as cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. Before joining Morrison & Foerster LLP, Judge Jackson served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the appeals division of the Office of the Federal Public Defender in the District of Columbia. Before that appointment, Judge Jackson worked as an Assistant Special Counsel at the Sentencing Commission and as an associate with two law firms (one specializing in white-collar criminal defense, and the other focusing on the negotiated settlement of mass-tort claims). Judge Jackson also served as a law clerk to three federal judges: Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Judge Jackson is currently a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Defender Services, as well as the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and the Council of the American Law Institute. She also currently serves on the board of Georgetown Day School and the United States Supreme Court Fellows Commission.

Judge Jackson received a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1996, where she served as a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. She received an A.B., magna cum laude, in Government from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1992.

https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/home.nsf/content/VL+-+Judges+-+KBJ 

[Kamaji]

Does anyone have a link to an executive summary prepared by anyone who has reviewed the highlights of her published opinions?

[Right_in_Virginia]

At 51, she'll be on the bench for 25+ years.

[Kamaji]

At 51, she'll be on the bench for 25+ years.

Basically in the same age group as Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett.

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I wonder what Lindsey Graham has to say about this?

@Hoodat

BAAAAAA,BAAAAA?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Does anyone have a link to an executive summary prepared by anyone who has reviewed the highlights of her published opinions?

NYT, Jan 30, 2022

Judge Jackson has not yet written a body of appeals court opinions expressing a legal philosophy, having joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia only last summer.

Her earlier rulings as a district judge in Washington, however, comported with those of a liberal-leaning judge, blocking the Trump administration’s attempts to fast-track deportations, cut short grants for teen pregnancy prevention and shield a former White House counsel from testifying before Congress about President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to obstruct the Russia investigation.

As a judge, she is known more for being detailed and thorough, sometimes to a fault, than for crisp and succinct rulings. Her high-profile opinion in 2018 invalidating Mr. Trump’s executive orders that sought to undermine labor protections for public employees sprawled over 119 pages and peaked with an 84-word sentence.

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But it is her rulings over more than eight years on the Federal District Court that have attracted the most attention.

In 2017, she sentenced a man to four years in prison after he had fired a military-style rifle inside a Washington pizzeria. He had been deluded by a false internet conspiracy theory, known as Pizzagate, that Hillary Clinton was operating a pedophile ring there.

After she invalidated Mr. Trump’s executive orders that undercut public labor union protections, an appeals court unanimously reversed her ruling on the grounds that the courts lacked jurisdiction to consider whether the orders were lawful.

In perhaps her most famous decision, Judge Jackson ruled in 2019 that Donald F. McGahn II, the former White House counsel, had to obey a congressional subpoena seeking his testimony about Mr. Trump’s actions during the Russia investigation.

“Presidents are not kings,” she wrote, adding that current and former White House officials owe their allegiance to the Constitution. “They do not have subjects, bound by loyalty or blood, whose destiny they are entitled to control.”

But Judge Jackson also took nearly four months to resolve the case, including writing a 120-page opinion, even though it would inevitably be appealed. That slow pace contributed to helping Mr. Trump run out the clock on the congressional oversight effort before the 2020 election, though the Biden administration later struck a deal for Mr. McGahn to testify behind closed doors.

(By contrast, after Mr. Biden elevated Judge Jackson to the appeals court, she was part of a three-judge panel whose handling of another closely watched case — Mr. Trump’s challenge to a congressional subpoena for White House records related to the Capitol riot — was notably faster. The panel ruled, in an opinion written by a colleague, that Congress could see the documents less than a month after the case appeared on its docket.)

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Ms. Jackson clerked for several judges, including Justice Breyer. She worked in his chambers during the 1999-2000 term, when the court considered issues like gay rights, public prayers at high school football games and so-called partial-birth abortion.

The family returned to Washington, where Ms. Jackson joined the federal public defender’s office. She worked largely on appeals but also on behalf of several men indefinitely detained without charges at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

[...]

At the same time, however, she was related by marriage to the Republican vice-presidential nominee: Paul D. Ryan, the House speaker. The twin brother of her husband, Dr. Jackson, is married to the sister of Mr. Ryan’s wife.

Mr. Obama was re-elected, and at her December 2012 confirmation hearing, Mr. Ryan testified in her support, calling her “an amazing person” and “clearly qualified.”

“Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji’s intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal,” Mr. Ryan told the Senate Judiciary Committee.

More:  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/30/us/politics/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson.html

[Right_in_Virginia]

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Biden To Nominate Pro-Abortion Radical Ketanji Brown Jackson To Supreme Court
By: Jordan Boyd
February 25, 2022

excerpt:

Jackson is currently a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit where she repeatedly used her power to limit the actions of former President Donald Trump. In 2018, she ruled against Trump in a federal employee unions lawsuit even though she acknowledged he had the constitutional authority to “issue executive orders pertaining to the field of federal labor relations.” In 2019, she used the Russian collusion hoax as an excuse to justify mandating that former White House counsel Don McGahn testify before the House Judiciary Committee.

Before she joined the court, Jackson worked as an openly progressive attorney and Obama appointee to the United States Sentencing Commission, where she was committed to forwarding the leftist agenda. More than two decades ago, the Breyer apprentice penned an amicus brief for the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), and other organizations that kill babies in the womb, in support of a Democrat-backed law that prevented pro-life protesters from congregating outside abortion facilities.

As a result of her work, Jackson has earned the favor of several pro-abortion, pro-LGBT, anti-religious liberty activist groups including The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, which is composed of problematic organizations including the radical Southern Poverty Law Center, the increasingly anti-free-speech American Civil Liberties Union, and Planned Parenthood.

more
https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/25/biden-to-nominate-pro-abortion-radical-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-supreme-court/

[Hoodat]

Mr. Ryan testified in her support, calling her “an amazing person” and “clearly qualified.”

That right there is a vote against for me.

[sneakypete]

Well,now we know whose representatives were the high bidders.

[Wingnut]

Sounds like she is the perfect choice for the party of death and anti-family values.

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Catturd ™
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Of course the basement dummy nominated the most radical activist judge he could find for SCOTUS.