Thursday as Breyer officially retires and Ketanji Brown Jackson to be sworn in as Supreme Court justice
Washington --Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn in as an associate judge of the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon, when the retirement of Justice Stephen Brayer will become formal, the court said Wednesday. She will be the first Black woman to serve on the high court.
At Jackson's swearing-in ceremony, Chief Justice John Roberts will take the constitutional oath, while Brayer, for whom he was clerk, will administer the judicial oath. Jackson, a judge at the Federal Court of Appeals in Washington, was confirmed by the Senate in a bipartisan vote in April.
Brayer, 83, said in a letter to President Biden that his retirement would take effect on Thursday afternoon, ending his nearly 28-year term in court.
Breyer is leaving the Supreme Court at the end of a term that saw no shortcomings in the blockbuster case, the most consequential of which was Friday's decision to dismiss Rowe v. Wade, as well as the first-ever extension of gun rights.
The court is expected to announce its two remaining views - a dispute over the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to control greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and a challenge to the Biden administration's efforts to end the so-called "stay in Mexico" policy. -- Thursday morning and then summer vacation.
"It is a great honor for me to participate as a judge in our efforts to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law," Brayer told Mr. Biden in his letter on Wednesday.
Appointed to the Supreme Court by former President Bill Clinton in 1994, Breyer announced plans to resign at the end of his term in January, giving Mr Biden his first appointment to the high court. The president announced Jackson as his nominee in late February, and the Senate approved his nomination in less than two months.
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