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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nathan Place

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s daughter wrote a letter recommending her to Barack Obama in 2016

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As Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson faces tough questions at her confirmation hearings, she has at least one letter of recommendation to fall back on: her daughter’s.

Back in 2016, Leila Jackson – then 11 years old – wrote a message urging then-president Barack Obama to consider her mom for the high court. At the time, Mr Obama was choosing a potential replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia, who had just died.

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