President Biden has reaffirmed that he will be nominating an African American woman to sit on the US Supreme Court, to replace the retiring Steven Breyer. Although this will leave the Court with its current 6 to 3 conservative majority, it will be a momentous milestone on the road to making one of the hallowed pillars of the US Government more diverse and more representative of the American community both as to gender as well as ethnicity.
The composition of this bench will look interesting and certainly very different from that a half-century ago when only white males were considered to be eligible and sufficiently competent. Four of the five Justices in the new court will be women: Biden’s new pick to be added to Elena Kagan; Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett. Two of the justices will be African American.
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