Joe Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court

, the 83-year-old senior member of the court’s three-justice liberal bloc, who is retiring this summer. Her nomination was first announced via a presidential tweet on February 25th. It is both a historic and savvy selection.

This is not the first time Ms Jackson has been considered for a Supreme Court vacancy. After nominating her to be a district-court judge in the District of Columbia in 2012 , Barack Obama interviewed her for the seat that opened up when Justice Antonin Scalia died in 2016. That ill-fated nomination went to, whom Senate Republicans refused even to consider; they held the seat open for more than a year before confirming Donald Trump’s nominee, Neil Gorsuch, in 2017.

In addition to her experience on the DC circuit, Ms Jackson shares other characteristics with potential colleagues. Like all but one of the sitting justices , she was educated in the Ivy League. Ms Jackson graduated with high honours from Harvard University in 1992 and with honours from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the, in 1996. And like six of the justices, she served as a clerk on the Supreme Court early in her career.

Recent Supreme Court nominations have been pitched partisan battles. There is little reason to expect otherwise with Ms Jackson’s selection. Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate minority leader who helped thwart Mr Garland’s confirmation in 2016 , called Ms Jackson “the favoured choice of far-left dark-money groups that have spent years attacking the legitimacy and structure of the court itself”. He added that he looked forward to “carefully reviewing” her nomination.

GOP(Putin's poodles) have really damaged the US.

Yeah! Take that 200years meritocracy! Your time is done!!!

And rightfully sooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

As it should be.

She’ll always be the unqualified affirmative action hire….

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