The president of the United States, Joe Biden, will propose this Friday to Ketanji Brown Jackson, judge of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, as a nominee to fill the vacancy of the Supreme Court of the country, thus fulfilling his promise to elect an African American to this position.
Several US media reported this Friday that Ketanji Brown Jackson is finally the one chosen by Biden over other candidates such as J.Michelle Childs or Leondra Kruger, the other two best positioned for the position.
If confirmed, She will be the first black woman to occupy one of the nine chairs of the highest US judicial instance.
After graduating cum laude from Harvard University, Jackson developed a varied career -she was even an assistant to Breyer- and since last year she has been a judge on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, considered the second most important court in the country and a platform for ascending to the Supreme Court.
The two years she spent as a court-appointed attorney for low-income people would make her, if she reaches the Supreme Court, the court’s first female judge with that kind of experience in more than three decades.
Jackson is the favorite of the progressive wing of the Democrats and this Wednesday she received the support of the lawyer Ben Crump, who has represented the families of a dozen victims of police brutality and racism, including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
That support is due in part to the decisions that Jackson made during her time as a judge in a federal court in Washington: in 2018, for example, she invalidated a plan by then-president Donald Trump to facilitate the dismissal of public sector workers. .
On another occasion, however, he allowed Trump to circumvent environmental regulations to build the wall with Mexico, saying that a lawsuit on the subject was outside his jurisdiction.
What’s more, Jackson worked at the US Sentencing Commission to reduce sentences for most federal drug crimes. It is a matter he knows firsthand: his uncle was sentenced to life in prison for a non-violent drug crime, although he was released in 2017 and died shortly after. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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