Biden keeps his promise.. an unprecedented appointment to the Supreme Court

 US President Joe Biden confirmed Thursday that he will appoint, for the first time in US history, an African-American woman to the Supreme Court, replacing Justice Stephen Breyer, who decided to retire.

 "I have made no decision except that the person I shall name will be a person of exceptional qualification, character, experience, and integrity (...) and that person will be the first African-American woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States," Biden said at the White House, with a liberal judge standing at his side.

 The Democratic president had promised in his campaign that he would appoint the first African-American woman to the Supreme Court as soon as a seat in the country's highest judicial body became available.

The nine judges of the Court are appointed for life, and none of them becomes vacant until his death or voluntary retirement.

 Breyer, 83, will retire before the midterm elections in November, which will make it easier for Biden to appoint a successor and pass this appointment in the Senate, which is currently dominated by his Democratic party.

 The court is composed of nine judges, currently six conservatives and three liberals.

 Breyer is the dean of the liberal wing of the court and in his long career has issued hundreds of decisions, accumulating a rich pragmatic legacy.

Breyer is the court's oldest member and was appointed by former Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1994.

 Former US President Donald Trump appointed three conservative justices to the Supreme Court, giving the right a majority of six out of nine seats.

 According to local media, Biden has a list of three options, all of whom are African-American women.

 Citing a source in the White House, local newspapers indicated that the first candidate is Judge Kitangi Jackson, 51, who works on the Court of Appeals in Columbia.

 The second option is Judge Bondera Krueger, who served as a federal judge on the California Supreme Court.

 The final choice is Judge Michelle Childs, 55, a federal court judge in South Carolina.