Kamala Harris to be sworn in by first Latina justice Sotomayor at inauguration

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris shall be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday, a history-making occasion through which the primary Black, South Asian and feminine vice chairman will take her oath of workplace from the primary Latina justice.
Harris selected Sotomayor for the duty, in response to an individual conversant in the choice. She’ll additionally use two Bibles for the swearing-in, one among which belonged to Thurgood Marshall, the primary Black Supreme Court justice.
ABC News first reported the most recent particulars of Harris’ inauguration plans.
Harris has expressed admiration for each Sotomayor and Marshall. She and Sotomayor share expertise as prosecutors, and he or she as soon as referred to as Marshall _ like Harris, an alumnus of Howard University one among her “greatest heroes.”
The vice president-elect stated in a video posted to Twitter that she seen Marshall as “one of the main reasons I wanted to be a lawyer,” calling him “a fighter” within the courtroom.
And this would be the second time Sotomayor takes half in an inauguration. She swore in President-elect Joe Biden as vice chairman in 2013.