Senator Jim Clyburn says President Biden would do well to appoint a South Carolina jurist to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. South Carolina U.S District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs is the Senate Majority Whip's pick to succeed the retiring justice.
Clyburn says he'll always believe pledging to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court was the decisive factor in Joe Biden's South Carolina Democratic primary win, and that the 55-year old district judge has everything it takes to become the first African-American woman on the High Court.
Childs is a University of South Carolina Law School graduate and was a Circuit Court judge based in Columbia before being appointed to the District Court in 2010. If Capitol Hill Democrats overcome their own divisions to all vote the same way, a Biden appointee could be confirmed with no Republican support.