A pair of influential South Carolina lawmakers who want the president to elevate Michelle Childs to the Supreme Court are pressing Joe Biden to send a message with the pick that the federal bench is attainable for Americans who did not attend a set of elite colleges.
Biden has committed to diversifying the Supreme Court by appointing the first Black woman to serve as a justice, but Congressman Jim Clyburn and Sen. Lindsey Graham say he should go even further and choose someone who earned their degrees from public schools.
Amy Coney Barrett is the only current Supreme Court justice who did not attend an Ivy League college. She attended the University of Notre Dame, a private Catholic school in Indiana.
