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Ketanji Brown Jackson emerges as frontrunner for vacant US Supreme Court seat
January 28, 2022 at 08:23
If appointed, she would be the first black woman to sit on country’s most powerful bench
After Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death in 2016 left a seat vacant on the US Supreme Court, the 11-year-old daughter of federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson drafted a letter to then-president Barack Obama recommending her mother as a replacement.
That effort proved unsuccessful, but six years later, Jackson is among the frontrunners to become the newest justice on America’s highest court, after the retirement of Stephen Breyer later this year.
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That effort proved unsuccessful, but six years later, Jackson is among the frontrunners to become the newest justice on America’s highest court, after the retirement of Stephen Breyer later this year.
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