United States vice president-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in on Wednesday with the help of Judge Sonia Sotomayor., the first Spanish magistrate to the US Supreme Court, reported an adviser to Joe Biden’s running mate this Saturday.
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This plan aims to underline the historic moment of the inauguration
Harris, who will the first female vice president of the United States, as well as the first African woman of Asian descent to arrive at the White House.
For her part, Sotomayor, born in New York and whose parents were Puerto Rican, in 2009 he became the first Spanish judge to rise to the Supreme Court in the history of the country, after being nominated by then President Barack Obama
(2009-2017).
Currently, Sotomayor is part of the minority of three progressive Supreme Court justices and is probably the figure most admired by the Democrats in the Supreme Court, following the death of veteran Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last September.
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Sonia Sotomayor is probably the figure most admired by the Democrats in the Supreme Court, after the death of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg (pictured).
Harris is sworn in as vice president at a ceremony in front of the Capitol Building in Washingtonshortly before Biden takes the oath of office in the presence of the Chief Justice, Conservative Judge John Roberts.
The oath of both offices consists of repeating a short phrase that Roberts and Sotomayor will recite to them, pledging Biden and Harris to diligently exercise their new positions and defend the Constitution.
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As he swears in office, Harris will put his hand on two Bibles, as is the tradition in the countryAn adviser to the elected vice president, quoted by various media outlets, said Saturday, asking for anonymity.
The first Bible she will use belonged to a friend of Harris’ family, Regina Shelton, and the second belonged to the late Judge Thurgood Marshall, who was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court and one of the great references of the is vice president. chosen, the consultant explained.
25,000 soldiers will be deployed in Washington for the inauguration (file photo).
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Biden, for his part, plans to use the same bible that he used for that purpose during his political career to swear in office: a huge book owned by his family since 1893 and measuring nearly 13 inches wide.
The President-elect last relied on that Bible to swear during his second term as Vice President of the US in 2013, a ceremony in which Judge Sotomayor was also sworn in.
The inauguration will be held with a limited audience due to the protocols to prevent contamination with Covid-19, and its security device will be the most powerful in the history of the country, with up to 25,000 soldiers deployed in Washington, given fears of new attacks after the attack on the Capitol.
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