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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.
Biden has promised to pick the first Black woman to serve on the
high court and plans to make his choice known by the end of
February. A source familiar with the situation said he is
expected to select from a list of about 10 or fewer people,
meeting with candidates as soon as next week.
Psaki declined to give details of Biden's list but said, "He
has, of course, been reviewing a number of potential
candidates."
The White House last week confirmed that one name on Biden's
list is U.S. District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs. Biden
nominated Childs last month to the influential U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit but is putting that
on hold while considering her for the Supreme Court.
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.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Steve Holland in Washington;
Editing by Matthew Lewis)
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