Business Insider: Legal insiders are buzzing about Ketanji Brown Jackson’s chances of becoming Biden’s first Supreme Court nominee
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on March 17, 2021.
And Daniel L Goldberg, legal director of the progressive Alliance For Justice, told Insider that nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court is crucial for the Biden administration to showcase its commitment to putting more “demographically and professionally diverse individuals with a demonstrated commitment to equal justice” on the bench.
“For generations, African American women have been on the forefront of advancing the cause of justice,” he said. “And in the over 230-year history of the Supreme Court, there has never been an African American woman nominated as a justice.”