EXPLAINER: What’s ahead for Biden’s Supreme Court nominee

By MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court has launched what Democrats hope will be a quick, bipartisan confirmation process for the court’s first Black woman. Retiring Justice Stephen Breyer has said he will leave this summer at the end of the court’s current session. But Democrats want to confirm Jackson months or weeks before that, ensuring she is the justice-in-waiting, in case the narrow 50-50 balance of the Senate shifts in any way. They’re aiming for confirmation before the middle of April, but that may be too ambitious.