{"id":410185,"date":"2022-01-27T06:23:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T06:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=410185"},"modified":"2022-01-27T06:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T06:23:15","slug":"biden-committed-to-name-black-woman-for-supreme-court-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/biden-committed-to-name-black-woman-for-supreme-court-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden committed to name Black woman for Supreme Court: White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON <strong>(SONNA): <\/strong>US President Joe Biden is committed to naming a Black woman to a Supreme Court seat, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president has a stated and reiterated his commitment to nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court and certainly stands by that for today,&#8221; Psaki said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Again, I&#8217;m just not going to be able to say anything about any specifics until, of course, Justice (Stephen) Breyer makes any announcement, should he decide to make an announcement,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Her remarks came hours after multiple reports said that Breyer is stepping down from the top court at the end of the current term.<\/p>\n<p>Breyer served as an appeals court judge between 1980 to 1994 before becoming a chief nominated by former President Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if Biden will pick Vice President Kamala Harris for the Court, Psaki said, &#8220;Again, I&#8217;m not going to speak to any considerations, preparations, lists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During his presidential campaign, Biden pledged to nominate a Black woman if he was elected.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Anadolu Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (SONNA): US President Joe Biden is committed to naming a Black woman to a Supreme Court seat, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday. &#8220;The president has a stated and reiterated his commitment to nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court and certainly stands by that for today,&#8221; Psaki said at a news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-410185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410187,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410185\/revisions\/410187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}