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The first Black woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court by a president is being nominated by Joe Biden, according to multiple outlets.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on April 28, 2021.
CNN and the Associated Press reported that Biden will name Jackson to the high court, with a formal announcement expected Friday.
It was two years before Jackson's nomination was announced that Biden promised to name the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.
Jackson served as a federal judge in Washington, D.C. before she was appointed to the Court of Appeals.
She is the first former public defender to be named to the Supreme Court.
Jackson's most notable ruling on the federal bench was in the year 2019, when she ordered Trump-era White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before the House Judiciary Committee as part of its investigation into Russian election interference.
The confirmation process is expected to be swift. Jackson will have to get a simple majority of votes in the Senate to be confirmed, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee chair, who said before the nominee was announced that he aimed to complete the process by the time the Senate goes on its Easter recess.
Jackson will get Republican votes. Biden said before the nominee was announced that he expected whoever he named to be confirmed in a bipartisan vote. Three Republican senators voted to confirm her to the D.C. court of appeals.
Biden is filling his first Supreme Court seat after Justice Stephen Breyer said in January that he would step down at the end of the court's term this summer. The Senate and White House are under Democratic control, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had declined to retire during Barack Obama's presidency, which led to heavy pressure from the left for Breyer to step down. Jackson will be the first Supreme Court justice appointed by a Democratic president in over a decade and the last one after McConnell blocked Garland's confirmation. Jackson's confirmation would not change the ideological makeup of the 6-3 conservative court, but will ensure the seat will likely be held by the left for decades to come, given her younger age.
Jackson is related through marriage to former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who had high praise for the judge during her Senate confirmation hearing.
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