judge jackson of d.c. court of appeals i believe a biden appointment. michelle childs, u.s. district court in south carolina. leslie abrams gardner serving in georgia. ifill, former naacp legal defense funds. are these the names that you are hearing? i think it s fair to acknowledge one stands higher than the others and that s judge ketanji brown jackson. there s a growing sense in the senate and i was somebody that felt this way. there s no reason in the world that every supreme court justice has to graduate from yale or harvard. there s plenty of smart lawyers that go to law schools all over this country and something weird that the country has decided there s only two schools that produce supreme court justices so i know there are other senators that felt the way i did
lindsey graham, who voted for kagan and sotomayor s confirmation still on the judiciary committee. voted for judge jackson s confirmation. he put out this interesting statement today saying elections have consequences. he thinks democrats will have the vote. i think he s still in play. then you ve got collins and murkowski, both pro-choice republicans. both have shown some interest in kind of moderation in voting for some of president biden s picks. murkowski s the single most independent minded republican senator, but she s also up for re-election, which puts her in a bind. she s getting primaried. susan collins just got re-elected and feels politically bulletproof. if she wants to vote for this judge, she can do it. harry, i want to play for you something that jen psaki said today. the white house is in this
an important, low moment. he lost iowa and new hampshire and the promise to nominate an african american woman to the supreme court and did that in supreme court and within a couple days completed an improbable turnaround and seized control of the primary process and then on to the white house and the white house made clear they will honor that commitment and judge jackson is the leader on the boards of people i talked to. the white house was not taken by surprise today. the president was given a heads up by justice breyer last week. was told the official letter would be a week or two down the road. where our friend pete williams broke the news that perhaps has accelerated that timetable. the letter is not delivered to the white house but could be any time and there s been some talk of an event in the coming days
he believed that the government could fix things and a relic of a bygone age. in some sense it is going to be tricky to find someone who thinks the way he does about bipartisanship and consensus, relationships and civility on the court. all of that is clattering away under his feet and why he is announcing this retirement now and the hard question is, is there anyone left who even thinks in those terms and the nominees are spectacular and as i said before i think judge jackson brown speaks of those values but the principle that breyer held fast to which is i can work across party lines, we can get things done, we can have a government that works for people. just seems like it s from the
kruger, california supreme court justice, born in 1976. a former obama justice department member, argued 12 cases before the supreme court. she clerked, you talk about someone, you know, how brown jackson clerked for justice breyer, she clerked for justice john paul stevens, sterling resume and apparently according to colleagues, a very strong favorite for a supreme court seat if biden holds on to his campaign promise of nominating a black woman. do you know anything about her, and is the california supreme court, any state supreme court as big a stepping stone to the supreme court as an appellate court, appeals court, one of the district courts, andy? trace, it doesn t happen as often but that s a stellar credential, and what i know about that particular judge is pretty much the resume you just outlined, which is a sterling resume, and it has the advantage