Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Julie Su will be President Joe Biden's next labor secretary, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments about student loan relief, and Lori Lightfoot is ousted in Chicago. Happy Wednesday!
- Chicago's choice. For the first time in 40 years, a Chicago mayor lost reelection. Lori Lightfoot ranked third in a nine-way election last night, ending her bid for a second term as the race advances to an April runoff vote.
Lightfoot rose to Chicago’s top political position in 2019, in a race in which she won all 50 of the city’s wards. At the time, she ran on a promise to end corruption and backroom dealing. The 60-year-old was Chicago’s first Black female mayor and the first openly gay mayor of the United States’ third-largest city.
