While the White House is trying to keep a lid on which black woman President Joe Biden will nominate for the Supreme Court, one potential nominee got a defense from the podium on Wednesday.
Press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about criticism from the Left about South Carolina Judge J. Michelle Childs, who some say hews too closely to corporate interests. Rather than sidestep the question, Psaki responded directly.
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“Some of the criticism I’ve seen out there is related to her labor record,” Psaki said of Childs, a U.S. district judge. “If you look at South Carolina, the [American Federation of Labor] in South Carolina endorsed her and has been supportive of her.”
Childs is backed by South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, who played a role in Biden winning the Democratic nomination in 2020, along with both of the state’s Republican senators.
But the American Federation of Government Employees has said her former employer, the Nexsen Pruet law firm, is anti-union and “not what we need,” according to ABC News. Biden has pledged to be the most pro-union president in history.
Psaki was otherwise tight-lipped about both the nominees and the nomination process, saying only that Biden will announce a nominee by March 1.
Along with Childs, U.S. Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the D.C. Circuit and California Supreme Court Associate Justice Leondra Kruger are rumored to be front-runners in the race to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
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“He is going to keep his blinders on, look at the qualifications, the cases, the backgrounds, the credentials of these eminently qualified nominees,” Psaki said. “All of the ones he is considering would make excellent, qualified Supreme Court justices.”
