Joe Biden keeps his campaign promise and appoints the first African American woman to the Supreme Court. It is Ketanji Brown Jackson, a 51-year-old Harvard graduate who, in her long career, also participated in the defense of a Guantanamo inmate.
"Proud" of his choice, the US president invites the Senate to a "correct and rapid" confirmation process: "It deserves to be confirmed," says Biden, praising Jackson's "extraordinary" qualities and the Supreme Court's need to "be mirror of the country "reflecting its diversity.
But the road to confirmation of the appointment is not exactly downhill: "The radical left has once again won over the White House", is the hot comment of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, also critical of the dominance of the universities of "Harvard and Yale" "in the appointments to the Supreme Court. "I voted against Jackson's confirmation for the position he currently holds" on the Washington Circuit Court of Appeals, Senate Conservative leader Mitch McConnell says even more starkly, noting how Jackson's choice was "influenced by dirty money from far-left groups that have been attacking the legitimacy and structure of the Supreme Court for years ".
The compactness of the dem on the name of Jackson plays in favor of confirmation, who in 2019 indirectly challenged Donald Trump, ordering White House legal adviser Don McGhan to testify in Congress stating that "presidents are not kings" and cannot claim a universal executive privilege over their former advisors.
In addition to being the first African American woman, Jackson is the third black person named in the Supreme Court's 233-year history, and raises the number of women who sit among the sages who, for over two centuries, have been a club to four. exclusively of white men.
Barack Obama also applauds the nomination: "Jackson has already inspired young African Americans like my daughters and his confirmation will help them believe they can be anything they want."
(Unioneonline / L)