WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and his White House team will start consultations this week on whom to pick as his nominee for the Supreme Court after Justice Stephen Breyer announced plans to step down in June, the White House said.
Press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden on Tuesday will host Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, a Democrat and the committee’s ranking Republican, Charles Grassley, to discuss the situation. Biden’s nomination will require Senate confirmation.
Psaki declined to give details of Biden’s list but said, “He has, of course, been reviewing a number of potential candidates.”
Other names expected to be on Biden’s list include Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal judge; Leondra Kruger, a justice on the California Supreme Court; and Sherrilyn Ifill, a prominent civil rights lawyer who heads the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
