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Following is a list of individuals who have been mentioned in various news accounts as possible nominees for a Supreme Court appointment under Biden: Note: Individuals marked with an asterisk would fulfill Biden's commitment that his first nominee be a Black woman. [9] Bolded individuals have been selected by Biden for the Supreme Court.
Biden had the most Article III judicial nominees confirmed during a president's first year in office since Ronald Reagan in 1981. [5] Biden appointed the most federal judges during the first two years of any presidency since John F. Kennedy. [6] Biden reached the milestone of 200 federal judicial confirmations on May 22, 2024.
On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden announced that he would nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to the position of associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to fill the vacancy by Stephen Breyer, who announced his retirement on January 27, 2022, at the age of 83.
In 2022, Biden picked Ketanji Brown Jackson, a former public defender, to be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court; she has since become a reliable member of the liberal bloc.
By nominating D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first African American woman to sit on the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden is breaking an important barrier ...
President Joe Biden first zeroed in on a pair of finalists for his first U.S. Supreme Court pick when there were rumors last year that Justice Stephen Breyer would retire. Jackson is seen as the ...
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...
President Joe Biden began his presidency with fewer vacancies to fill than his predecessor. [1] [2] He pledged to nominate people with diverse backgrounds and professional experience; [3] further he pledged to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court of the United States.