Check who Biden tapped as the 'sherpa' to guide the Supreme Court nominee:
Biden will name Jones to the role, citing anonymous sources, after the president previously considered the ex-senator to be the U.S. attorney general.
Jones served in the Senate for three years before being defeated in 2020 by Sen. Tommy Tuberville and he previously was a U.S. attorney in Alabama, where he prosecuted two members of the Ku Klux Klan for a 1963 church bombing in Birmingham. The “sherpa” “do[es] a little bit of everything of helping [a Supreme Court nominee] through the process,” former Sen. Kelly Ayotte , who served as Justice Neil Gorsuch’s sherpa, toldin 2018, including introducing the nominee to senators and helping them earn lawmakers’ support.
Though less experienced than other sherpas like Ayotte and former Sen. John Kyl , who guided Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Jones could be helpful as a Democrat who hails from a “deeply conservative” state, the
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