“She strives to be fair, to get it right, to do justice,” the president said.
President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.
As he introduced Brown Jackson, Biden called her a “proven consensus builder” who has “a pragmatic understanding that the law must work for the American people.”
“She strives to be fair, to get it right, to do justice,” the president said.
In Jackson, Biden delivers on a campaign promise to make the historic appointment and to further diversify a court that was made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries. He has chosen an attorney who would be the high court’s first former public defender, though she also possesses the elite legal background of other justices.
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