President Biden is on the cusp of picking a Supreme Court nominee, and a dozen progressive groups are revealing their preferred candidate among the finalists: U.S. Appeals Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
led by the courts-focused Demand Justice, the 12 groups nudge him to nominate someone with a background working as a public defender or in civil rights.
"As you consider your most important judicial nomination to date, we urge you to build on your commitment to professional diversity by appointing someone with civil rights or public defense experience to the Supreme Court," they write in the letter, as first reported by NBC News.that Biden has interviewed two other finalists in addition to Jackson: U.S. Circuit Judge J. Michelle Childs of South Carolina, and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger.
Demand Justice has already produced ads to support Jackson in case she’s chosen, a source familiar with the matter said. The left-leaning groups that signed the letter — which also include MoveOn, Indivisible, Justice Democrats and Demos — noted the Biden
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