President Biden’s likely top 2 Supreme Court contenders:
1. DC Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (51):
Harvard; Harvard Law; clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer; DC federal trial judge (2013-21); elevated to DC Circuit a year ago; legal analysis like Justice Sonia Sotomayor
2. California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger (45):
Harvard; Yale Law; clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens; a former top Supreme Court counsel to President Obama; appointed to her court in 2015; reportedly declined to be Biden’s SG; legal analysis like Justice Elena Kagan
Thank you to @seanspicer and @LyndsayMKeith for having me on @newsmax to discuss Justice Breyer’s retirement — and the (hilarious) discussion about potential replacements.
If President Biden appointed Kamala Harris to the Supreme Court, he’d quickly get 8 more vacancies to fill.
President Biden elevated Judge Jackson to the DC Circuit 7 months ago (June 17, 2021).
Her experience as an appellate judge is thin.
While she wouldn’t get elevated to the Supreme Court until July 2022, if picked, she’d likely stop working on cases immediately.
California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger has served as an appellate judge for 7 years (instead of 7 months).
For 8 years before that, she served as a Supreme Court advocate for the Justice Department in Washington (Jackson served for 8 years as a DC federal trial judge).
1. Yes, “the science changed”: Omicron is a (much) weaker variant than Delta.
2. Yes, 100% COVID theater.
(I also said all Justices are vaccinated and boosted, they all test before court arguments, so do advocates, and 2 Justices took off their masks after their masked entry.)