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handle is hein.crs/govefjj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional SResearch Service M President's Selection of a Supreme Court Nominee: The Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in Historical Context March 8, 2022 This Insight provides historical information related to the selection of past Supreme Court nominees, as well as information about the recent selection of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the anticipated vacancy created by Justice Stephen Breyer's announcement that he would retire at the end of the Court's current term (assuming his successor is nominated and confirmed by then). For additional information related to a President's selection of a Supreme Court nominee, such as the criteria used to select a Supreme Court nominee, see CRS Report R44235. The information below is provided for comparative purposes and does not presume the outcome of Judge Jackson's nomination. Days Elapsed Until a Nominee Was Announced Figure 1 shows, for vacancies on the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2020, the number of days that elapsed between the date on which it was publicly known that a Justice was leaving the Court (due to retirement or death) and the date when a President publicly announced a nominee to replace the departing Justice. Because, during this period, a President's initial publicly announced choice to fill a vacancy was typically confirmed by the Senate, the figure shows only past vacancies on the Court for which multiple nominations were not required to fill the vacancy. For information about the three vacancies since 1975 that had multiple nominations prior to being filled (i.e., the vacancies created by the departures of Justices Powell, O'Connor, and Scalia), see CRS Report R44235. For the 13 vacancies included in Figure 1 (excluding the anticipated Breyer vacancy), approximately 19 days, on average, elapsed between the date on which it was publicly known that a Justice was leaving the Court and the date on which the President publicly identified a nominee for the vacancy. For the same 13 vacancies, the median length of time between the two dates was 12 days. Most recently, President Biden announced his intent to nominate Judge Jackson on February 25, 2022- 29 days after Justice Breyer's announcement on January 27, 2022. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN11878 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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