democrats tried the quorum strategy with amy coney barrett, but republicans got around it. >> reporter: right, exactly. when you have the control of the senate, you can get around these things. >> understood. melanie, thank you so much. let's take a closer look at these nominees. eight black women on the short list of potential nominees. >> yeah, let's begin with ketanji brown jackson and her confirmation hearing, the front-runner, the d.c. circuit court judge, jackson last year biden appointed jackson to the second most powerful federal court in the nation. the d.c. court of appeals. >> when you become a judge, you take an oath to look only at the law in deciding your cases, that you set aside your personal views about the circumstances, the defendants, or anything else. >> brown got a couple republican votes in her confirmation there. jackson recently signed an opinion ordering trump white