Supreme Court: Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination endorsed by 83 former state AGs

EXCLUSIVE: Greater than six dozen Republican and Democrat former state attorneys basic endorsed President Biden’s nominee to serve on the Supreme Courtroom, Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson, touting her “in depth” expertise and her “deep understanding of legislation and its influence” and urging the Senate to approve her nomination “as shortly as attainable.”

Eighty-three former state attorneys basic expressed their “robust assist” for Brown in a letter to Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Dick Durbin, D-Sick., and committee rating member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, obtained solely by Fox Information.

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The in depth record contains former legislation enforcement officers from throughout the nation, together with three who previously served within the U.S. Senate: Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Richard Bryan of Nevada. 

The previous state attorneys basic touted Jackson’s “excellent {qualifications}.” 

“Her spectacular authorized profession has offered her with many alternatives; and she or he has skilled the justice system from all views—as a federal appellate decide, district court docket decide, vice-chair of the U.S. Sentencing Fee, non-public practitioner, assistant public defender, and U.S. Supreme Courtroom clerk for Affiliate Justice Stephen Breyer,” they wrote.

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“As former Attorneys Basic who served because the chief authorized officer of our respective states and jurisdictions, we comprise a various group of people with differing authorized backgrounds and experiences with our justice system,” they wrote.

Additionally they famous that Jackson has been confirmed by the Senate “on a bipartisan foundation” 3 times, together with in 2021, when she was confirmed to the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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Brown Jackson is President Biden’s first Supreme Courtroom decide of his presidency, after Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, introduced his retirement in January. 

Jackson is the primary Black lady to be nominated to the excessive court docket, fulfilling a promise Biden made throughout his marketing campaign. Whereas Republicans accused the president of being discriminatory together with his standards, they’ve stated they’d consider Jackson primarily based on her document and judicial philosophy.

Jackson’s affirmation listening to earlier than the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to happen March 21-24. It’s going to embrace statements from the committee members, testimony from Jackson as she faces questions from the committee, and outdoors testimony about her, together with from the American Bar Affiliation, which historically charges federal judicial nominees.

The Supreme Courtroom is now dominated 6-3 by conservatives after former President Donald Trump named three nominees. 

Fox Information’ Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.