chance to nominate a justice on a campaign trail. he vowed to nominate a black woman and we have known justice breyer has been pressured to step down. at the top of the list is judge ketanji brown jackson. she is seen as the front-runner, a former supreme court clerk for breyer and recently vetted by the biden white house and confirmed to the d.c. court of appeals to fill the seat left vacant by attorney general merrick garland. that court is often seen as a feeder for the supreme court. now a close second is leondra cuei kruger. she's argued dozens of cases before the court but has not been as thoroughly vetted. we know with the midterms looming time is of the essence here.