‘One of our nation’s top legal minds.’ Biden hails court pick Jackson in State of Union speech

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden used his primetime platform of his first State of the Union address to make the case for confirming Miami’s Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court before a national television audience and a chamber full of the lawmakers who will weigh the judge’s nomination. Biden’s speech came just four days after he nominated Jackson, a federal appeals judge, to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, a historic pick which would make the Miami Palmetto High School graduate the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s high court. “One of the most s...