USA Today: Supreme Court will close to honor Jimmy Carter
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on December 30, 2024.
While Carter never had the chance to nominate a Supreme Court justice, he named Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer to federal appeals courts, both of whom were later elevated to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton.
Ginsburg was one of 40 women Carter appointed to the federal bench. Until then, only eight women had been previously confirmed as federal judges, according to the Alliance for Justice.
“He envisioned a judiciary that upheld equal justice under the law by modeling equality among its ranks,” the Alliance’s Keith Thirion said in a statement.