Potential Biden Supreme Court nominees?

[jamesbond]

Hello,

This is James. Who do you think would be Biden's nominee(s) for the Supreme Court vacancy?

Any thoughts friends?

Cheers,
James

[Non Swing Voter]

I think he's on record saying it would be a black woman.  There aren't a ton of black female Federal Judges (not that that's necessary) so it's probably a very small list.

[Ferguson97]

Ketanji Brown Jackson

[Horus]

Either Katanji Jackson or Stacey Abrams' sister whose name escapes me

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

I think Cheri Beasley, the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, would be an excellent choice. She checks all of the boxes and she's only 54.

[jamesbond]

@nonswingvoter I thought I read the same thing - African American female, so I wonder who the contenders are?

Michelle Obama? She is a Lawyer by training I think?

Stacey Abrams?

Keisha Lance Bottoms?

Or is a law degree and practice an unwritten requirement for consideration?

[ProgressiveModerate]

Maybe Leondra Kruger of the CA supreme court or some of the names mentioned above.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Merrick Garland
Sri Srinivasan
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar
Jacqueline Nguyen
Robert Wilkins
Loretta Lynch
Goodwin Liu
Pam Karlan
Kannon Shanmugam
Patricia Ann Millett
David Barron
Paul Watford
Jane Louis Kelly

that said, Biden has promised to nominate a woman of color, so if he decides to use this seat to fulfill that promise, the list shortens considerably.

[jamesbond]

Will his position that he will nominate an African American female judge to the Supreme Court become a campaign issue to draw voters from the African American and other 'minority' communities?

[vitoNova]

Hussein and his wife would really float my boat. 

But liberals don't have the balls. 

[Hope For A New Era]

Okay, fine, if he wants to nominate a woman of color he can.

But Merrick Garland better be next on the list, and he needs to make a big show of his nomination and confirmation.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

But Merrick Garland better be next on the list, and he needs to make a big show of his nomination and confirmation.

No, Merrick Garland is 67 years old. Biden would be an idiot to nominate him.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Kannon Shanmugam

The super conservative former Luttig and Scalia clerk? That seems unlikely. I'm legitimately curious why his name was on your list.

This is just a list I found of potential Scalia replacements from 4 years ago

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But Merrick Garland better be next on the list, and he needs to make a big show of his nomination and confirmation.

Hell no. Garland is too old and too centrist.

[BaldEagle1991]

I think Cheri Beasley, the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, would be an excellent choice. She checks all of the boxes and she's only 54.

She'd be good, but she needs federal court experience.

[Donerail]

Here's what I think a "Biden shortlist" would look like, assuming 1. he releases one in the next few weeks and 2. he sticks to his promise to nominate a black woman.

District Courts

• Ketanji Brown Jackson (D. D.C.)
• Leslie Abrams Gardner (M.D. Ga.)
• Denise Casper (D. Mass.)
• Andrea Wood (N.D. Ill.)
• LaShann DeArcy Hall (E.D.N.Y.)
• Tanya Chutkan (D. D.C.)
• Wilhelmina Wright (D. Minn.)

State Supreme Courts

• Leondra Kruger (Cal.)
• Adrienne Nelson (Or.)
• Cheri Beasley (N.C.)
• Kimberly S. Budd (Mass.)

Litigators, politicians & academics

• Sherrilyn Ifill, President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
• Melissa Murray, Professor of Law, New York University
• Danielle Holley-Walker, Dean of Howard University School of Law
• Christina Swarns, Executive Director of the Innocence Project
• Michelle Alexander, author and past director of the Civil Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School
• Stacey Plaskett, Delegate to the U.S. House from the U.S. Virgin Islands

Of these, Kruger, Brown Jackson, and Abrams Gardner stand out as by far the most likely picks. I'd bet against Lynch being included on the shortlist, just because it might surface some controversy and I think Biden will be angling for the most moderate, low-profile list he can assemble (a nice counterpoint to whatever horrors will be on display in the confirmation hearings). The names in the top two categories are fairly limited by their membership, while the third is a bit more speculative, but I imagine he'll include a good mixture of figures from both the courts and the private sector (and Ifill, at least, is a lock to be considered).

[Pericles]

But Merrick Garland better be next on the list, and he needs to make a big show of his nomination and confirmation.

No, Merrick Garland is 67 years old. Biden would be an idiot to nominate him.

Yeah Garland isn't a good serious choice, he was just a weird attempt at a compromise choice by Obama.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

Casper, Kruger, Abrams Gardner, Jackson, Wood, Beasley fit the requirements the best

[Bootes Void]

But Merrick Garland better be next on the list, and he needs to make a big show of his nomination and confirmation.

No, Merrick Garland is 67 years old. Biden would be an idiot to nominate him.

Yeah Garland isn't a good serious choice, he was just a weird attempt at a compromise choice by Obama.

Hes a good pick for the supreme Court in a less partisan atmosphere

[NewYorkExpress]

Biden just goes from "Vice President Kamala Harris" to "Supreme Court Justice Kamala Harris".

[brucejoel99]

Biden just goes from "Vice President Kamala Harris" to "Supreme Court Justice Kamala Harris".

And then "Vice President Barack Obama." And then...

[Spark]

Ketanji Brown Jackson

[OSR STANDS WITH PALESTINE]

Judge Lynn Toler

Look her up if unfamiliar

[Orser67]

Gulf Coastal Elite's list looks pretty solid to me. Imo, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Leondra Kruger seem like the likely front-runners.

If Biden makes a second appointment, or for whatever reason decides not to limit his list to African-American women, then some other possibilities include Paul Watford, Jacqueline Nguyen, Sri Srinivasan, and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar. I doubt Biden will go the politician route, but if he does, Cory Booker and Catherine Cortez Masto would be possibilities.

[KaiserDave]

Raymond Lohier for Thomas’s seat?