Justice Stephen Breyer to retire...Update: Ketanji Brown Jackson to be nominated to SCOTUS

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Rhakim said:
That doesn't make her qualified, the only reason she had "served as a judge" was because Trump had put her in that position earlier in his term and she was already unqualified to even go that far.

Imagine if Trump got pissed off at Mike Pence and tossed him to the bushes, picked Candace Owens as his VP instead, and then when Candace Owens ran for president in the next election you claimed, "Of course Candace Owens is more qualified to be president than Cory Booker, Candace Owens was the VP!"

You don't magically become "more qualified" just because some dumbass put you in a position you were never qualified for in the first place.
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That's what often happens, Obama appointed Kagan to be Solicitor general then month later nominated her to SCOTUS. Bush did similar with Thomas. In fact Obama was trying to do the same with Brown Jackson.
 
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Rhakim said:
Ketanji Onyika Brown was born on September 14, 1970, in Washington, D.C. Her parents were both graduates of historically Black colleges and universities. Her father, Johnny Brown, ultimately became the chief attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board; her mother, Ellery, served as school principal at New World School of the Arts. Jackson grew up in Miami, Florida, and graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1988.

After high school, Jackson studied government at Harvard University, graduating in 1992 with an A.B. magna cum laude. When she was in college, her uncle was sentenced to life in prison due to a nonviolent cocaine conviction. Years later, Jackson persuaded a law firm to take his case pro bono, and President Barack Obama eventually commuted his sentence. Another uncle served as Miami's police chief. During her time at Harvard, Jackson led protests against a student who displayed a Confederate flag from his dorm window.

After law school, Jackson served as a law clerk to Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1996 to 1997, then to Judge Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1997 to 1998. She spent a year in private practice at the Washington, D.C. law firm Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin (now part of Baker Botts), then clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1999 to 2000.

Jackson worked in private legal practice from 2000 to 2003. From 2003 to 2005, she served as an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission.

From 2005 to 2007, Jackson was an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., where she handled cases before U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. A Washington Post review of cases Jackson handled during her time as a public defender showed that "she won uncommon victories against the government that shortened or erased lengthy prison terms".

On July 23, 2009, Barack Obama nominated Jackson to become vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jackson by unanimous consent on February 11, 2010. She succeeded Michael E. Horowitz, who had served from 2003 until 2009. Jackson served on the Sentencing Commission until 2014. During her time on the Commission, it retroactively amended the Sentencing Guidelines to reduce the guideline range for crack cocaine offenses, and enacted the "drugs minus two" amendment, which implemented a two offense-level reduction for drug crimes.

During her time on the District Court, Jackson wrote multiple decisions adverse to the positions of the Trump administration. In her opinion ordering Trump's former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a legislative subpoena, she wrote "presidents are not kings". Jackson handled a number of challenges to executive agency actions that raised questions of administrative law. She also issued rulings in several cases that gained particular political attention.




People in here arguing about the dumbest shyt. Who did you want to be named to the position?

Of the candidates that we knew were possible, Ketanji Brown Jackson is a good choice. She's been down for Black folk for a long time and she specifically looks out for people who get fukked over. Just look at how the right-wing is responding to her nomination - would you prefer that Biden picked the judges the white southerners wanted him to pick?


Conservatives Say SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Will Be a Radical Judicial Activist

Biden to Nominate Radical Obama Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to US Supreme Court

Biden’s First Federal Judges A Smokescreen for Radical Coup of the Courts

Biden’s Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Is So Radical

Lindsey Graham declared that 'the radical Left has won' as Biden selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson




And that "WenGuangLie" moron also posted a tweet claiming she's a female Clarence Thomas....why would you pay attention to anyone posting shyt that dumb?
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Making cacs mad... :patrice:

I approve :ld:
 
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Rhakim said:
Ketanji Onyika Brown was born on September 14, 1970, in Washington, D.C. Her parents were both graduates of historically Black colleges and universities. Her father, Johnny Brown, ultimately became the chief attorney for the Miami-Dade County School Board; her mother, Ellery, served as school principal at New World School of the Arts. Jackson grew up in Miami, Florida, and graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in 1988.

After high school, Jackson studied government at Harvard University, graduating in 1992 with an A.B. magna cum laude. When she was in college, her uncle was sentenced to life in prison due to a nonviolent cocaine conviction. Years later, Jackson persuaded a law firm to take his case pro bono, and President Barack Obama eventually commuted his sentence. Another uncle served as Miami's police chief. During her time at Harvard, Jackson led protests against a student who displayed a Confederate flag from his dorm window.

After law school, Jackson served as a law clerk to Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1996 to 1997, then to Judge Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1997 to 1998. She spent a year in private practice at the Washington, D.C. law firm Miller Cassidy Larroca & Lewin (now part of Baker Botts), then clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1999 to 2000.

Jackson worked in private legal practice from 2000 to 2003. From 2003 to 2005, she served as an assistant special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission.

From 2005 to 2007, Jackson was an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., where she handled cases before U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. A Washington Post review of cases Jackson handled during her time as a public defender showed that "she won uncommon victories against the government that shortened or erased lengthy prison terms".

On July 23, 2009, Barack Obama nominated Jackson to become vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jackson by unanimous consent on February 11, 2010. She succeeded Michael E. Horowitz, who had served from 2003 until 2009. Jackson served on the Sentencing Commission until 2014. During her time on the Commission, it retroactively amended the Sentencing Guidelines to reduce the guideline range for crack cocaine offenses, and enacted the "drugs minus two" amendment, which implemented a two offense-level reduction for drug crimes.

During her time on the District Court, Jackson wrote multiple decisions adverse to the positions of the Trump administration. In her opinion ordering Trump's former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a legislative subpoena, she wrote "presidents are not kings". Jackson handled a number of challenges to executive agency actions that raised questions of administrative law. She also issued rulings in several cases that gained particular political attention.




People in here arguing about the dumbest shyt. Who did you want to be named to the position?

Of the candidates that we knew were possible, Ketanji Brown Jackson is a good choice. She's been down for Black folk for a long time and she specifically looks out for people who get fukked over. Just look at how the right-wing is responding to her nomination - would you prefer that Biden picked the judges the white southerners wanted him to pick?


Conservatives Say SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Will Be a Radical Judicial Activist

Biden to Nominate Radical Obama Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to US Supreme Court

Biden’s First Federal Judges A Smokescreen for Radical Coup of the Courts

Biden’s Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Is So Radical

Lindsey Graham declared that 'the radical Left has won' as Biden selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson




And that "WenGuangLie" moron also posted a tweet claiming she's a female Clarence Thomas....why would you pay attention to anyone posting shyt that dumb?
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Yup. I always thought she was the clear front runner.

THE BEST part of the Biden administration and the current Dem Senate has been the aggressiveness of nominating and confirming judges. I give Biden and Schumer kudos especially with the potential of a GOP blowout in 8 months.
 
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