Nominees have had those qualifications. what are you specifically looking for in a justice? look, you re not going to get to choose who president biden nominates here, but if you did have a say among the various jurists out there that he seems to be considering, what would you most like to see? i m looking for someone who will be fair and objective, who supports the rule of law and precedent, unlike too many of former president trump s nominees. i want to ask you about something that donald trump said over the weekend. he was at a rally, and he suggested if he were to run and win again, he might pardon some of the people who were involved in the insurrection on january 6th of 2021. what are your concerns about a statement like that from a legal or political perspective?
President biden will have the chance to nominate a justice to the court, especially the chance to help this court look more like america, better reflect america. and to me that is such a fantastic opportunity. what aworry about is just continued gop obstruction. i know with the split in the senate, you know, we can confirm a justice, 50, along with the vice president, but i worry that mcconnell and the gop will just throw up every possible road bloc they can to delay this, to deny confirmation hearings and whatever else to whomever president biden nominates. i m excited that the court has a chance to look more like america, but i m really worried to see what continued obstruction that the gop will throw up. let me peel that back a
reporter: laura, that s right. they don t think the fact that president joe biden wants to nominate a black woman is enough for them to get behind supporting any sort of nominee president biden nominates to replace justice breyer to the supreme court. the other problem is the bigger picture, they believe whoever president joe biden nominates will be much too far left for them to get behind. this is the majority where the majority of republicans are with any sort of choice president biden makes. as jasmine said by the end of february to nominate someone to replace justice breyer. mitch mcconnell sums it up. in a statement this is what he said. he said the president must not outsource this important decision to the radical left. it s exactly as you said. they re hoping to slow down this process. they think that the time line
Of the view. he s like anchch old style libel in this view that the state can do good at racial discrimination,oo that there is such a thing as know good race balancing by the staten and presumably universities as well. and thomas has a long taken the view that there is no such thing as good racial discrimination by the state. so it s fascinating that , you know right as he s leaving thatt issue is sort of coming right back to the front. so so i think the tone will likely be more stridently progressive whoever biden nominates. the end resultt er i don t think the court is going to change i much in terms of how it rulesnk kerry thinking back on the nomination of what would have been another first, whichul is the nomination of janice rogers brown and she was filibustered by none other thant joe biden. so this idea of appointingac a black woman tok the judiciary ,he voted three times againstga confirmingin her just to be a us
Said he wants to nominate a black woman. r mitt romney disagrees, but reiterated it depends on who biden nominates to the supreme court. another republican that is kind of unlikely that you wouldn t think would support a candidate, a nominee that biden would want to the supreme court, is lindsey graham. he is really pulling for michelle childs. she deserves in south carolina on the u.s. district court. he said if biden nominates childs he will support her. he said, quote, she s a very good person, highly qualified, publicly educated and i think there s some interest in diversity on the court, not just in terms of african american women, but background. it s as you said, he s at camp david this weekend reviewing materials for the supreme court nominees he might nominate to the bench and he wants to meet in person with them as soon as this week. he doesn t want to do virtual meetings. he doesn t want to do it over