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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Justice Stephen Breyer announced on Wednesday his plans for retirement.</li><li>Legal experts say <keyword id="13038053" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ketanji-brown-jackson" source="Orion">Ketanji Brown Jackson</keyword> is a leading candidate to replace him.</li></ul>Justice <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/stephen-breyer">Stephen Breyer</a>'s planned retirement will give President Joe Biden his first opportunity to appoint a <keyword id="11893011" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="supreme-court" source="Orion">Supreme Court</keyword> justice — and, for many Democrats and even some Republicans, the choice is already clear.Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson emerged as an heir apparent almost as soon as Biden, who <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/problem-biden-s-pledge-black-woman-justice-n1200826">pledged</a> during his presidential campaign to nominate a Black woman to the high court, took office in January 2021. The US Senate confirmed Jackson in 2013 to the federal trial court in Washington, DC, where she served for eight years before Biden put her on the powerful US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, a court that has served as a launch pad to the Supreme Court.Jackson's tenure as a federal district court judge was highlighted by an opinion in which she ordered former Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a House Judiciary Committee subpoena to testify as part of the first impeachment inquiry into the former president. In a more than 100-page opinion, she forcefully rejected the Trump administration's claims that a president's close advisers are absolutely immune to demands for testimony before Congress.The decision made waves with a single line: "Presidents are not kings."Jackson brings not just experience on the federal bench but a background that the Biden administration has sought out in its push to fill judicial vacancies. Before she served on the US Sentencing Commission and on the federal bench, Jackson— a Harvard <keyword id="11899820" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="law" source="Orion">Law</keyword> School graduate — worked as an assistant federal public defender in the District of Columbia. "There could not be a better choice than her. She's extremely intelligent, very hard-working, and — most importantly in my line of work — she's compassionate and truly cares about the individuals who come before her," said Jon Jeffress, who worked with Jackson in the federal public defender's office in Washington, DC.Progressives looked to Jackson as they last year pressured Breyer to retire during the first year of the Biden presidency. Biden's pick could energize Democratic voters ahead of the 2022 midterms, where Democrats face the prospect of losing majorities in both the House and Senate. Biden's approval rating, meanwhile, has plummeted in recent months, and he's facing some criticism from Black voters after Democrats failed to pass legislation on voting rights and police reform measures. .Breyer has decided to step down from the Supreme Court at the end of this current term, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/justice-stephen-breyer-retire-supreme-court-paving-way-biden-appointment-n1288042">NBC News.</a> The timing of Breyer's decision could benefit Jackson if she goes through a Supreme Court confirmation, some observers say."I think Jackson is far and away the leading contender," said Mike Davis, a former top Republican Senate aide who played a key role putting Trump appointees on the federal bench. "If they would have tried to elevate [Judge Jackson] to the Supreme Court last June, they would've taken hits that she wasn't ready for the job."With Jackson now having a year on the DC Circuit — a court widely considered the second most powerful in the land — Davis said "those arguments are going to ring hollow."Legal experts have pointed out that it would be notable for Jackson to replace Breyer on the court because she was a former clerk for Breyer."A lot of judges and justices really feel like their clerks are extended family," Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University and a former clerk at the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, previously told <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-biden-supreme-court-nominee-stephen-breyer-2021-3">Insider</a>. <div type="image" title="Justice Stephen Breyer" height="2671" width="3562" msid="89142899" hostid="261"></div>Breyer has also advocated on behalf of Jackson for her current role. In 2012, during Jackson's confirmation hearing for her current job, Del. <keyword id="13038054" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="eleanor-holmes-norton" source="Orion">Eleanor Holmes Norton</keyword> of Washington, DC, relayed how Breyer thought very highly of Jackson. "The first words out of his mouth when he picked up the phone were, 'Hire her,'" Norton <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-biden-supreme-court-nominee-stephen-breyer-2021-3">told</a> senators. Breyer then added, "She is great, she is brilliant. She is a mix of common sense, thoughtfulness. She is decent. She is very smart and has the mix of skills and experience we need on the bench.'' Supreme Court nominees require a simple majority vote of the US Senate to be confirmed. Democrats hold the slimmest of majorities in a US Senate divided 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting tie-breaking votes, when necessary.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-supreme-court-shortlist-names-first-black-woman-2022-1">Biden's short list</a> is also expected to include California Supreme Court Justice <keyword id="13038057" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="leondra-kruger" source="Orion">Leondra Kruger</keyword>, South Carolina District Court judge <keyword id="13038055" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="michelle-childs" source="Orion">Michelle Childs</keyword> and Minnesota District Judge <keyword id="13038056" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="wilhelmina-wright" source="Orion">Wilhelmina Wright</keyword>. The Biden administration twice approached Kruger about the role of solicitor general — the Justice Department's chief advocate before the Supreme Court — but she declined, according to people familiar with her response.Kruger's decision not to join the Biden administration was <a href="https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2021/01/19/cooleys-elizabeth-prelogar-will-return-to-doj-solicitor-office-as-top-deputy/">first reported</a> by the National Law Journal.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="12034502" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="aclu" source="Orion">ACLU</keyword> of <keyword id="11896851" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="minnesota" source="Orion">Minnesota</keyword> filed a <keyword id="11921506" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lawsuit" source="Orion">lawsuit</keyword> in June 2020 on behalf of <keyword id="6364464" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="journalists" source="Orion">journalists</keyword> who were targeted and attacked at the protests.</li><li>State troopers were aware of pending litigation against them when they purged communications, according to witnesses.</li><li>No trooper has been disciplined for arresting, using force against, or using chemical weapons against a journalist at the protests.</li></ul>During testimony given on July 28 to the US District Court of Minnesota, Major Joseph Dwyer of the Minnesota State Patrol said that "a vast majority of the agency" manually purged their emails and text messages days after being served with a lawsuit over their response to protests over <keyword id="11911209" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="george-floyd" source="Orion">George Floyd</keyword>'s death in May 2020, according to court documents. Dwyer, who was at the protests and served as commander of the troopers' mobile response team, is one of many witnesses involved in a class-action lawsuit that the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-files-class-action-lawsuit-against-minneapolis-police-attacking-journalists">American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed in June 2020</a> on behalf of journalists who were targeted and attacked while covering the protests.<keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">News</keyword> of the testimony came out last week when US District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright issued a brief on the case."The impact of this purge is compounded by the fact that during the protests Troopers were either directed not to complete use of force reports or told that such reports were not required," she said. "The absence of both contemporaneous communications and documentation makes it nearly impossible to track the State Patrol's behavior, apparently by design."Dwyer testified that he was aware of current litigation when he and other troopers purged their e-mail inboxes and text messages. He also testified that not a single use of force report about the protests was completed, according to court documents.Minnesota Commissioner of Public Safety John Harrington testified that no trooper had been disciplined for arresting, using force against, or using chemical weapons against a journalist. Wright said that "virtually nothing has been done to hold anyone accountable for the misconduct" for violating the constitutional rights of journalists during the protests.Witnesses also confirmed to Wright that State Troopers concocted false reports to justify the arrest, assault, and use of less-lethal weapons against journalists, and ignored the governor's order exempting journalists from curfew restrictions.

Minnesota State Patrol officers purged their texts and emails after they were sued over their response to George Floyd protests, according to witnesses

<ul class="summary-list"><li>First-term Democratic Rep. <keyword id="9843434" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="angie-craig">Angie Craig</keyword> is projected to defeat the Republican Tyler Kistner in Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District, Insider and Decision Desk HQ can report.</li><li>Craig became the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/11/07/665118634/the-midterm-elections-have-made-history-with-these-notable-firsts">first openly lesbian mother</a> in Congress when she was elected in 2018.</li><li>This suburban district is one of 30 congressional districts in the US that voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 but is currently represented by a Democrat.</li><li>See the live coverage and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2020-house-elections-results">full results from all US House elections</a>.</li></ul>First-term Rep. Angie Craig has retained her seat against the Republican challenger Tyler Kistner in Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District, Insider and Decision Desk HQ can report.The race had been in limbo after of the death in late September of Adam Weeks, a Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate. <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/204B.13" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Minnesota statutes</a> dictated that a special election be held in the district.The ballot would still list Weeks as the party's nominee, but Minnesota law stipulated that the House race would not be certified and would instead rely on the results of the special election with an updated ballot. The special election was set for February 9.But on October 9, US District Court Judge Wilhelmina Wright <a href="https://twitter.com/Stowydad/status/1314674160417812490">granted Craig's request for a preliminary injunction</a> to require Minnesota to hold the election as scheduled on November 3. Wright sided with Craig's argument that the Minnesota statute <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/2/7">violated a federal law</a> requiring states to hold <keyword id="6355644" type="DEFINITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="elections">elections</keyword> for members of Congress on the first Tuesday after the First Monday in November.<h2>The candidates</h2>Craig was a newspaper reporter before she moved to London to work in human resources for a medical-device company.Craig became the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/11/07/665118634/the-midterm-elections-have-made-history-with-these-notable-firsts">first openly lesbian mother</a> in Congress when she was elected in 2018. In the summer of 2020, she introduced a bill to extend Paycheck Protection Program loans by five weeks. In July, President Donald Trump enacted the bill, her <a href="https://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases/craig-s-bill-extend-ppp-loans-becomes-law-small-businesses-may-apply-through">second signed by the president</a>."I'll never stop fighting to keep the American dream alive, especially not in the middle of a global pandemic," she said in a statement. "That's why I urgently worked across the aisle to secure an extension of the PPP program. Our communities deserve our commitment that their best interests are what is driving our legislation."Kistner is a former US Marine and member of the Marine special operations forces. His <a href="https://www.tylerkistnerforcongress.com/issues">campaign platform</a> centered on national security, improving infrastructure across the country, and defunding Planned Parenthood.<h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2020-election-results">See live coverage and full results for the US presidential election »</a></h3><h2>The district</h2>The 2nd Congressional District is home to the Twin Cities metropolitan area and contains Wabasha, Dakota, Goodhue, and Scott counties.The district is <a href="http://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2020-house/">one of 30 in the country</a> that voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 but is currently represented by a Democrat. Trump narrowly carried the district in 2016, winning it by 1.2 points over Hillary Clinton.Since 2016, this suburban district has trended considerably more Democratic. In 2018, Craig won her first election over Rep. Jason Lewis by 5 points, Democratic Gov. Tim Walz carried the district <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DBw7g4aVDTIoOEu_E3BuX6TQC_c2Nht1FCTn9i_WmAk/edit#gid=662102744">by 7 points</a>, 51% to 44%, and Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar won it <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HyJWyjcjPXq-mZf2klQrV6xMQAx0erlW85gD0UOMd5Q/edit#gid=309733530">by over 22 points</a>, 59% to 37%.<h2>The money race</h2><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2020&amp;id=MN02&amp;spec=Np;spec=N">According to the Center for Responsive Politics</a>, Craig had raised $4.9 million, spent $2.8 million, and had $2.1 million in cash on hand as of September 30, while Kistner had raised $2.6 million, $2.1 million, and had a little under $440,000 in cash on hand.<h2>What the experts said</h2>The race was rated as "safe Democratic" <a href="https://insideelections.com/ratings/house">by Inside Elections</a> and "likely Democratic" by <a href="https://cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings">The Cook Political Report</a> and <a href="http://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2020-house/">Sabato's Crystal Ball</a> at the University of Virginia Center for <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics">Politics</keyword>.Expanded Coverage Module: insider-voter-guide

RESULTS: First-term Democratic Rep. Angie Craig defeats Tyler Kistner in Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District

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