WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden was all smiles as he eased up to the cameras to introduce his historic nominee to the Supreme Court late last week, relishing a moment of positive news after months of punishing developments at home and abroad.
But if Democrats hoped the introduction of U.S. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman named to the high court would be a clean victory for an embattled president, Russian President Vladimir Putin had already made clear he had other plans.
