Is going to be an all-out battle, senator josh holly saying expect a major battle in the senate if biden nominates woke activists. it would seem as we look out to when this actually happens there could be a very serious battle royale for his replacement. well, that s the thing with judicial confirmation fights. they are very unpredictable, you know. harriet meiers was effectively blocked in her effort, robert bork in his effort, and controversy with bret kavanaugh. these things can take unexpected turns and we are living in an age of rage and where reasonable people tend to be shouted down. but having said that, the votes are there, you know. the filibuster was rolled back
Crime under military law. president biden signed the executive order making the change yesterday as required by the act in the 2022 national defense authorization act. army specialist guillen was killed in in 2020. back in may the military reported receiving more than 7200 sexual harassment complaints in fiscal year 2020. still ahead, what you need to know about the so-called stealth omicron variant. we ll talk to a doctor who has already identified three cases of it. first, today is international holocaust remembrance day, we re looking live at the auschwitz museum in poland which is marking 77 years since the camp s liberation. survivors are giving speeches in honor of those killed in the holocaust.
Others. a new trend is emerging, people becoming infected with the virus for a second time or more. around the world ceremonies and remembrances today honoring the 6 million jews killed in the holocaust. we begin with our top story this morning, justice stephen breyer will step down from the u.s. supreme court nbc news learned yesterday. breyer is the court ears oldest justice at 83. he s set to a peer alongside president biden at the white house today to formally announce his retirement from the court which will take place at the end of the term. joining me is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams who was the first to break the news, as he always does. pete, good morning. walk us through what s next in the process and who is on the short list. well, the immediate next is that justice breyer will go to the white house this afternoon, we think, and formally hand the
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Old style liberal in this view, that the state can do good racial determination, that there is such a thing as good race balancing by the state on a presumably by universities as well and thomas has long taken the view there is no such thing as good racial discrimination by the state, so it s fascinating that right is he s leaving, that issue is sort of coming right back to the front. if so i think the tone will likely be more stridently progressive, whoever biden nominates, the end result, i don t think the court is going to change much in terms of how it rules. laura: carrie, thinking back on the nomination of what would ve been another first, which is the nomination of janice rogers brown, and she was filibustered by none other than joe biden. so this idea of appointing a black woman to the judiciary, voted three times against confirming her just to be a u.s. circuit judge.