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Martin Pengelly in New York

Clyburn: supreme court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson ‘beyond politics’

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, with President Joe Biden, speaks after she was nominated for associate justice of the US supreme court, on Friday.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, with President Joe Biden, speaks after she was nominated for associate justice of the US supreme court, on Friday. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

The supreme court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson should be placed “beyond politics”, the politician who extracted Joe Biden’s politically priceless promise to instal the first Black woman on the court said on Sunday.

Biden introduced Jackson as his pick to replace the retiring Stephen Breyer this week.

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