Constructing the Supreme Court: How Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Have Affected Presidential Selection and Senate Confirmation Hearings.

Keywords: Supreme Court; judicial diversity; Senate Judiciary Committee; president; gender; race EN Supreme Court judicial diversity Senate Judiciary Committee president gender race 400 409 10 03/28/23 20230401 NES 230401 In February 2022, President Joseph Biden announced his nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Like Presidents Reagan and Trump, President Biden promised to put a woman, and in particular a Black woman, on the Court.[21] He too fulfilled this promise in 2022, when Ketanji Brown Jackson became the second female nominee of color to the Supreme Court. [Extracted from the article]