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Kim Jackson Is Brett Kavanaugh’s Black Supreme Court Law Clerk Pick
Newly sworn-in Supreme Court Justice Brett Ka- vanaugh has hired four law clerks, and they’re all women. The move was significant for a number of reasons impossi- ble to ignore, including the wave of women around the country who protested his nomination and confirma- tion because of several women accusing him of sex- ual assault.
One of the new law clerks is an African-American.
Kim Jackson joined Shannon Grammel, Megan Lacy and Sara Nommensen as Ka- vanaugh’s Supreme Court law clerks. She is a Yale Law School alumnus just like her boss, according to The Wash- ington Post, which also re- ported that “two of the three African-Americans clerking at the Supreme Court this term previously worked for Kavanaugh.”
The 114th Supreme Court justice was already very fa-
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miliar with Jackson’s work, as she had previously worked for Kavanaugh while he sat on the appeals court bench.
Kavanaugh said on Monday that he planned to hire the quartet of legal minds before he was officially sworn-in.
“If confirmed, I’ll be the first justice in the history of the Supreme Court to have a group of all-women law clerks,” he said. “That is who I am.”
The hiring is to counter much of what’s been reported about Kavanaugh’s racist tendencies when it comes to his past cases. They have in- cluded, but were not limited to: a dissenting ruling in favor of stop-and-frisk polic- ing; writing about racial pro- filing that “The desire to remedy societal discrimina- tion is not a compelling inter- est;” and decidedly opposing affirmative action.
As Hurricane Michael battered the Florida Panhan- dle on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump visited Pennsylvania to urge backers to vote Republican in next month's Congressional elections.
Trump, who once criti-
cized his predecessor, Barack Obama, for cam- paigning eight days after a hurricane, said during a rally in Erie that he needs a Re- publican Congress to protect his actions as president.
"We need those votes in D.C.," Trump said.
Trump Stumps In Pennsylvania As Hurricane Michael Lashes Florida
President Donald Trump kicked off his rally in Erie, Pennsyl- vania, by telling everyone in the path of Hurricane Michael that the nation's thoughts and prayers are with them. He says here will be no effort spared to help Florida recover.
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