WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in on Wednesday by Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in a history-making event where the first black, South Asian and female Vice President will take her oath of office from the first. Latina justice.
Harris chose Sotomayor for the job, according to a person familiar with the decision. She will also use two Bibles for the swearing-in, one of which belonged to Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court judge.
ABC news first reported the final details of Harris’ inauguration plans.
Harris has expressed admiration for both Sotomayor and Marshall. She and Sotomayor share experience as prosecutors, and she once called Marshall – like Harris, a Howard University graduate – one of her “greatest heroes.”
The vice-president-elect replied posted a video on Twitter that she saw Marshall as “one of the main reasons I wanted to be a lawyer,” and called him “a fighter” in court.
And this will be the second time that Sotomayor takes part in an inauguration. She swore to President-elect Joe Biden as vice president in 2013.