U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in on Wednesday with the help of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, The first Hispanic magistrate of the US Supreme Court, an adviser to Joe Biden’s formula partner reported on Saturday.
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This plan seeks to emphasize the historic moment that will involve the investiture of
Harris, who will the first female vice president of the United States, in addition to the first Afro-Asian woman to reach the White House.
For his part, Sotomayor, born in New York and whose parents were Puerto Ricans, became in 2009 the first Hispanic judge to ascend to the Supreme one in the history of country, after being nominated by then-President Barack Obama
(2009-2017).
Sotomayor is currently part of the minority of three Supreme Court progressive judges, and is probably the most admired figure by Democrats in the high court, following the death last September of veteran magistrate Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Sonia Sotomayor is probably the most admired figure by Democrats in high court, following the death of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg (pictured).
Harris will be sworn in as vice president at a ceremony in front of the Capitol in Washington, Just before Biden took the oath of office before Supreme Court President Conservative Trend Judge John Roberts.
The oath of both charges consists in repeating a brief phrase which will be recited to them by Roberts and Sotomayor, and with which Biden and Harris will undertake to diligently exercise their new positions and to defend the Constitution.
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While swearing in his office, Harris will get his hands on two bibles, as is the tradition in the country, An adviser to the elected vice president was quoted as saying by various media on Saturday, requesting anonymity.
The first bible he used belonged to a friend of Harris’ family, Regina Shelton, and the second was owned by victim Judge Thurgood Marshall, who was the first African-American to be a member of the Supreme Court and is a of the great referents of the elected vice president, the adviser explained.
For the investiture there will be 25,000 military deployed in Washington (archive photo).
Stefani Reynolds. AFP
Biden, for his part, plans to use, to swear in his office, the same bible that he has used for this purpose throughout his political career: a huge volume which has been owned by his family since 1893, and which measures nearly 13 inches wide.
The president-elect last leaned on this bible to swear in 2013 his second term as U.S. vice president, a ceremony in which Judge Sotomayor also swore allegiance to him.
The investiture will be held with a small audience due to protocols to prevent covid-19 infections, and its security device will be the most powerful in the country’s history, with up to 25,000 troops deployed in Washington, In the face of fears of further attacks after the assault on the Capitol.
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