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cant seat. In his campaign, Biden promised to nominate the first-ever Black woman justice. Although nothing is final, many are speculating as to whom Biden will choose to join SCOTUS. “Our process is going to be rigorous. I will select a nominee worthy of Justice Breyer’s legacy of excellence and decency. While I’ve been studying candidates’ backgrounds and writings, I’ve made no decision except one: the person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience, and integrity. And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court,” Biden said.
Javed Ali, former senior counterterrorism director at the National Security Council and a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy, added, “Recent charges brought against Allison Fluke-Ekren demonstrate the appeal ISIS had to a broad section of foreign extremists around the world, including women and those from the United States. “Despite their similar jihadist outlooks, unlike al-Qaeda, ISIS held
little to no prohibitions for more operational roles for women in the group, and there were many other women who performed similar functions in ISIS like Fluke-Ekren.” According to the documents, Fluke-Ekren “fantasized” about an attack on a large number of people and “considered any attack that did not kill a large number of individuals to be a waste of resources.” Fluke-Ekren was arrested in Syria and was expected to make her first
federal court appearance in Virginia on Monday.
Bye, Bye Breyer Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement from his position on the highest court of the land last week. Now, U.S. President Joe Biden will get to choose who will sit in Breyer’s va-
Many are thinking that Biden will nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson. The 51-year-old has known Breyer for decades and is a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law school. She worked as a lawyer in private practice and as a public defender. She also served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Since June 2021, Jackson has served in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Another possible candidate is Leondra Kruger. The 45-year-old has served on the California Supreme Court since 2015 and if nominated and confirmed would be the first person in over 40 years to move from a state court to the Supreme Court. Kruger attended Harvard before earning her law degree from Yale. Before moving back to California, she worked for the Department of Justice, and she has argued a dozen cases before the Supreme Court on behalf of the federal government. Biden may also be considering J. Michelle Childs, 55, a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law who holds a master’s degree from the school as well as a different legal degree from Duke. She has served as a federal trial court judge since 2010 and was previously a state court judge. Sherrilyn Ifill is also on Biden’s shortlist. The 59-year-old is cur-
