Let’s start here: No, Washington Supreme Court justice G. Helen Whitener isn’t going to be president Joe Biden’s choice to fill the open slot on that other Supreme Court. When I asked by phone yesterday if she’d been contacted about the nomination, Whitener dismissed the question softly, a polite come on of sorts.
Was it a longshot? Perhaps. But when Biden committed to appointing a Black woman to the country’s highest court, the first Black female justice on Washington’s Supreme Court appeared on a couple lists of candidates for the federal gig.
Some of those name-checking Whitener cited her advocacy for LGBTQ rights and representation, a cause that may not have won her a seat in DC (yet)
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