President Joe Biden, to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, said he had but one fixed criterion. The nominee must be a black female.
On the first day of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing, Sunny Hostin, co-host of ABC’s “The View,” tweeted: “Been crying with pride all day watching Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson breaking this ceiling. Never thought I would feel so very emotional. But I’m all in my feelings.”
California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown did not set out to become the first black female nominated to the United States Supreme Court. But had it not been for then-Sen. Joe Biden standing in her way 20 years ago, Brown might well have been on the road to “breaking this ceiling.”
Brown, the daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers, was born in Alabama during Jim Crow. As a single mom, she worked her way through college and…
