Ron Klain will bring years of Supreme Court smarts to Biden’s White House
CNNCNN — If President-elect Joe Biden gets to choose a new Supreme Court justice, chief of staff Ron Klain would have the playbook ready. In early 2016, when Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly, President Barack Obama chose US Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked the nomination for nearly a year. Klain, who had left the Obama administration by 2016, had earlier advised Obama on his Supreme Court elevations of then-US appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor in 2009 and then-US Solicitor General Elena Kagan in 2010. “I love my good friend Ron Klain,” Kagan responded, “but I guess I think that people should be allowed to label themselves, and … I guess I’m not going to characterize it one way or another “ The new Biden chief of staff may, over the next four years, extend his own mark as Supreme Court selector.
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