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With several weeks to go before President Biden’s self-proclaimed deadline for nominating a new justice to the Supreme Court, any shortlisted prospects will have to exercise considerable patience before they learn the outcome. The experience of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggests, however, that good things come to those who wait—and wait.

In March 1993, Associate Justice Byron White announced his retirement, giving Bill Clinton an opportunity early in his presidency to nominate a successor. Clinton’s White House counsel, Bernard Nussbaum, set in motion a protracted search process, later describing what happened in a confidential oral history interview at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.

Ginsburg, then an appellate court judge, initially was not near the top of their list. Nussbaum and Clinton first sought a nominee distinguished by practical political experience. Their model was Earl Warren, who came to the high court directly from the governorship of California.

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