Here come the Biden Judges.
What do you need to know about them? Well, according to Biden’s announcement tweet, they check a lot of boxes. A lot.
You can read about the Judges at the White House website, but Carrie Severino tells you what you need to know — the list is payback to far left activist groups.
The three appeals court nominees are all black women.
— Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, 50, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Jackson, who is Black, would fill the vacancy created by Judge Merrick Garland’s move to lead the Justice Department. She has served on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia since 2013. President Barack Obama had considered Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016. Biden has promised to nominate a Black woman for the high court if he has the opportunity to do so.— Tiffany Cunningham, 44, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Cunningham, who is Black, has been a partner at Perkins Coie LLP in Chicago since 2014. She serves as trial and appellate counsel for large multinational companies, as well as small enterprises, and individuals in complex patent and trade secret disputes.— Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, 41, for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Jackson-Akiwumi, who is Black, is a partner at Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP in Washington, where she focuses on complex civil litigation, white-collar criminal defense and investigations. From 2010 to 2020, Jackson-Akiwumi worked as a staff attorney at the Federal Defender Program in the Northern District of Illinois.
Getting these nominees appellate court experience is viewed as building their resumes for an eventual Supreme Court nomination, since Biden has promised to nominate a black woman for the next vacancy (I’m expecting Breyer to retire when the term ends in June).
The marquee nominee is Brown Jackson, who is being nominated for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Severino has a profile of Brown Jackson at National Review:
Jackson has been on the Supreme Court short list of Demand Justice, to which prospects do not make the cut unless they are far to the left. Demand Justice is part of the Arabella Advisors network.Jackson received her B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1992 and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1996. Upon graduation, she clerked for the district court in Massachusetts, followed by a clerkship in the First Circuit. She then spent about a year as an associate at Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin before going on in 1999 to clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.Over the next three years, she returned to private practice, working as an associate on mostly civil matters at Goodwin Procter and then The Feinberg Group. Her work shifted to criminal law in 2003, when she joined the staff of the United States Sentencing Commission as an assistant special counsel.From 2005 to 2007, Jackson served as an assistant public defender in the Federal Public Defender’s Office. In that capacity, she represented indigent criminal appellants before the D.C. Circuit. She remained there until 2007, when she joined Morrison & Foerster as of counsel. Her practice there consisted primarily of appellate work, which included amicus briefs on behalf of accused enemy combatants in military detention.Jackson donated to the Obama campaign and was appointed in 2010 to be a commissioner and vice-chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. She served in that capacity for three years before President Obama appointed her to the D.C. district court. She is married and has two daughters.
So there you go.
Will Republicans have the guts to go after the Biden appellate court nominees to prevent SCOTUS grooming the way Democrats went after Miguel Estrada?
Don’t hold your breath.
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