Materials already assembled on potential nominees for the high court. one of the things, especially in this modern age, that makes this such a rigorous process is the intense exposure of every part of the life of the ultimate nominee who would be chosen so they need a lot of information. they typically don t start with a blank page and so it is really prudent for a white house to have that information so mike s reporting makes a lot of sense, that they would have names on the list and the supporting documentation to go with that. we ve also seen that presidents sometimes go beyond that. president biden has in fact boxed himself in publicly, saying he would like an african american woman, the first to be put on the high court, and so that may narrow the field and make the selection process a shorter search period because if you re looking for current federal judges, that s not a requirement of the court, that is certainly not the case but it certainly makes it an easier
Clinton appointee to a biden appointee is not expected to somehow swing the court, but the type of juis could be different in some ways, more progressive. biden s democratic party coalition is certainly in a different place than clinton was in the 90s era and a lot of other big picture issues defending democracy, civil rights, voting rights, the calls for police reform in america and against that backdrop, something you and others reported and it s important and a sitting fact of all this, which is 95% of every member, every supreme court in history, 95% of all justices have been white men. so having a president make this rather unprecedented vow also speaks to where the country is trying to potentially or part of the country trying to grow and change. dahlia, how quickly could we get the confirmation from justice breyer? the reporting i heard, and pete may know this better, is that he s going to make a statement tomorrow, so we will
They can slow inflation, that s going to be good for everyone. so while we re going to have this small raise in rates, which remember, we re coming from zero, the last time inflation was this high, rates were above 5%, so we can stand for rates to go up a little bit. this is all meant to start to even out the economy, and really have us standing on our own. the stock market and the economy should no longer have this giant safety net of the fed constantly hugging it. we got to stand on our own. stephanie ruehl, thanks so much for joining us. appreciate it. thank you. and still ahead, what are members of congress saying about justice breyer s retirement and will democrats have trouble getting president biden s pick confirmed? ahead, the u.s. urges its citizens in ukraine to leave now warning the situation there could deteriorate with little notice. breaking point, jacob soboroff takes an ambulance ride. you see any light at the end of the tunnel or this is how it s going to
Is this going to be a tough sell especially if it s somebody like jackson brown or brown jackson who was confirmed by the senate, she was confirmed by a majority, manchin was on board, sinema was on board, a couple republicans were on board. you know, katy, supreme court nominees are quite partisan the last couple of years, usually fall on party lines. i only made a couple hours of phone calls and talked to the leadership. it doesn t appear this is going to be an extremely hard-fought nomination. the senate is democratic. the president is a democrat. you d have to guess whoever the white house chooses will get through quickly and remember, katy, very important to point out, susan collins has voted for every supreme court nominee since she s been in the senate, except for amy coney barrett. so you d have to imagine that would be a big break from her traditional history as somebody who supports the president s right to choose somebody for a judicial post like this.
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