A majority of the respondents said they believed racial and gender diversity were important for the Court.
A further 21 percent said racial diversity was unimportant and 12 percent answered that it wasn't very important.
It was a similar picture when it came to gender diversity on the Court, as 35 percent of respondents said it was very important and 27 percent judged it somewhat important. Another 25 percent said it was unimportant and 13 percent said it wasn't very important. No Black woman has ever served on the Supreme Court and most of the Court's members have been white men. The late Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall was the first Black person to serve on the Court, between 1967 and 1991, while former Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman, serving from 1987 to 2006.
The Supreme Court currently has a 6-3 conservative majority and Justice Breyer is the most senior member of the Court's liberal wing. President Biden is expected to nominate someoneSpeculation has been rife about who Biden will pick, with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Associate Justice Leondra Kruger of the Supreme Court of California and U.S. District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs considered strong contenders.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the White House Competition Council in the East Room of the White House on January 24, 2022, in Washington, DC. A new poll has shown Americans approve of Biden's decision to nominate a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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