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Jonathan Zimmerman

Commentary: Why Biden should nominate J. Michelle Childs to be our next Supreme Court justice

Leondra Kruger is the daughter of two doctors. She graduated from Harvard College and attended law school at Yale University.

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s father was a lawyer, and her mother was a school principal. She went to Harvard for college too and stayed there for law school.

In other words, they’re pretty much like everyone else on the U.S. Supreme Court — where eight of nine justices hold degrees from Harvard or Yale — except for one thing: Kruger and Jackson are Black women.

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