Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Breyer: Biden’s potential picks

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Biden, as a presidential candidate, previously said if he were given the chance to nominate someone to the court, he would make history by choosing a Black woman.

, Breyer’s departure isn’t expected until this summer. And even though it won’t change the court’s 6-3 conservative majority, it will give Democrats a chance to secure a liberal seat for many years to come.

Kruger, 45, graduated from Harvard and Yale’s law school, where she served as a law clerk on the high court, before serving in the department as an assistant to the solicitor general and as acting deputy solicitor general. During her tenure in the Office of the Solicitor General, she argued 12 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court’s behalf of the federal government.

From 2013 until 2021, she served as 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. 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.

The San Diego native earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and received a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2004.

 

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