White House updates Hill on Supreme Court selection

The full text of the White House document:

• The President is leading a thorough and rigorous process to name an exceptionally qualified nominee, with strong experience, character, and integrity — who will be the first Black woman to serve on the highest court.
• It's long overdue that a Black woman serve on the Supreme Court, and there is bipartisan tradition for ensuring that the richness of our country is represented in its leadership and on the highest Court.  
• The President is choosing from among a wealth of accomplished and inspiring Black women with the strongest record, credentials, and abilities anyone could have for the highest court in our nation.
• The President believes that choosing a Supreme Court nominee is among the most serious decisions any president faces.
• He shares senators’ view that a president deserves latitude to have his nominees confirmed as long as they are well-qualified, but as a longtime chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he also takes the “advice” part of the process very seriously.

• As the President outlined, he is doing his “duty to select a justice not only with the Senate’s consent, but with its advice.”
• After last week’s meeting with Chair Durbin and Ranking Member Grassley, the President and Vice President — and their senior teams, including White House Counsel Dana Remus — have spoken with a wide range of Members of Congress and outside legal experts, and that engagement is continuing this week.