Welcome to a special edition of the Daily article.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum,

narrating this special edition article by Dr. Jim Denison.

President Biden is nominating Judge Katanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.

His announcement today fulfills a campaign promise to pick the first black woman for the nation's

highest court. Brown Jackson, 51 years of age, is currently a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals

for the District of Columbia.

I have written previously that Mr. Biden's campaign pledge to nominate a black woman to the

court, while an effective political strategy brings a demographic dimension to the court that our

founders did not intend. They created a representative democracy with three branches,

a president elected by all the people, a Congress composed of members elected by their constituents,

senators by their states and representatives by their districts, and a Supreme Court composed of unelected justices.

These justices are intended to hold the laws created by Congress and the actions of the

president accountable to the Constitution as it was written and intended to be interpreted.

As such, the justices are not intended to make laws,

but rather to evaluate them by constitutional standards.

As a result, applying a demographic filter to a nominee,

whatever that filter might be,

brings a representative dimension to the court that the

founders did not intend. Having said this, I do not want to miss the opportunity to note the

significance of the president's announcement. Judge Brown Jackson, if confirmed by the Senate,

would be the first black woman ever to serve on our nation's highest court.

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