Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced that he will be retiring, leaving a vacancy on the Supreme Court. President Joe Biden took the opportunity and announced his nominee almost immediately.

   Biden announced Ketanji Brown Jackson would be his nominee for said vacancy. Jackson was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for a short time before being nominated. She also served as a public defender in her early career.

   The nomination of Jackson has seen praise from Democrats and some Republicans. While some Republicans are against the nomination, CNN reported that retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig gave Jackson his full support. Luttig was an advisor to former Vice President Mike Pence. Luttig described her as “eminently qualified to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.”

   Luttig advised Republicans to support the nomination as he called for more bipartisanship.

   Senate confirmation meetings begin March 21. If all is to go well and there is no significant problem, then Jackson will be the first African American woman to be a Supreme Court Justice.