During a press conference in June 2020, presidential candidate Joe Biden pledged to appoint a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court if the opportunity presented itself as president. At the time, and even today, few Americans understood the social experiment to which Biden committed the country.
On January 27, 2022, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement from the court at the end of the current term, allowing President Biden to fulfill his pledge to nominate a Black woman to the court. On February 25, 2022, Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the 116th associate justice of
