When President Joe Biden selects a nominee for the Supreme Court, he’ll be returning to a process he grew deeply familiar with during a nearly two-decade run leading Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
As committee chairman from 1987 to 1995, and ranking member from 1981 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1997, Biden presided over some of the most notorious confirmation hearings of the era, a fate he’ll hope to avoid when selecting what he’s promised will be the court’s first black woman.
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