Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (Photo by H2rty via Wikimedia Commons)
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She’s determined, honest and never breaks a promise to anyone even if there are other things she’d rather do. She can demonstrate commitment and is loyal and never brags. I think she would make a great Supreme Court justice.
— an excerpt from a letter written by Leila Jackson, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s then 11-year-old daughter, that she wrote to President Barack Obama, suggesting her mother as a replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Jackson is now under consideration to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.
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