Biden says he'll put a black woman on Supreme Court. This California justice is a leading candidate
Former Vice President Joe Biden has promised that if elected in November, he will appoint the first black woman to the Supreme Court a step he called long overdue.
One of the leading candidates is 43-year-old California Supreme Court Justice Leondra R. Kruger. A former Justice Department lawyer who argued a dozen cases before the high court in Washington before returning to California, she is a favorite of former Obama administration lawyers and Democratic Senate advisors.
She should be on anyones short list for the Supreme Court, said Christopher Kang, a deputy counsel to Obama who oversaw the selection and vetting of 220 appointees to the federal court.
Leondra Kruger is one of the handful of the most brilliant attorneys with whom Ive ever worked, said Washington attorney Neal Katyal, who was acting solicitor general during Obamas first term. I asked her to be my principal deputy solicitor general because I knew the advice shed give me would be meticulous and deeply thought out, and most of all, honest: I cannot imagine a better justice.
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