Among the Black women being discussed as President Joe Biden's possible nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer is a civil rights lawyer who has backed the ''defund the police'' movement.
Lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill, 59, was mentioned by The Associated Press and number of Democrats, progressives in particular, as a candidate. Ifill is president and director-counsel at the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Biden vowed during the 2020 campaign debates to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, because it was "time" for a Black woman to have "representation."
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., an avowed Black Lives Matter activist, tweeted: ".@POTUS you promised us a Black woman on the Supreme Court. Let's see it happen."
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