throwing a tantrum, stopping just short of using the phrase, reverse racism. why does it seem to be mostly white men, who are upset that biden s shortlist isn t dominated by the usual list of, white men unfortunately, these are just the opening salvo civil will be a bidder, drawn out confirmation battle if no republican senators cross the aisle to confirm his pick, it is no sure thing that the democrats will be able to get all 50 of their members to ban together, not to mention, there are currently no black women senators to vote for what will be a historic nomination. unless, that is, vice president kamala harris has to step in and break a tie and joining me now to discuss, former senator the first black woman to serve in the senate. she also served as a united states ambassador to new zealand and samoa. senator, how does it feel to know that we are on the verge of seeing the first black woman
president biden confirming today that he ll nominate the first black woman to the supreme court to replace retiring justice stephen breyer. he is said to choose a nominate by the end of february. and a source saying that the president s excited that he is getting the chance to make a historic pick for the court. let s bring in now cnn s chief political analyst gloria borger and ella williams, the former is a assistant attorney general under president barack obama. good evening to both of you. hi, gloria. i m going to start with you. hi don. sure. some are saying this nominee won t face as tough a confirmation is going to be. they re really underestimating how nominating a black woman is triggering some on the right. what do you think? first of all i think no confirmation battle is ever easy, particularly in this kind of environment. obviously it depends on the
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my favorite lawyer working today. there is this question. the case here. you there is a bunch of things. will this person be a good justice? are they qualified? there is also the political confirmation battle. and brian, you know, we saw this with amy coney barrett they elevated her to the circuit court, they came back within a very short period of time, having gone through the process, having gotten the votes to put her on federal court and said, hey, here she is again. and it is very hard to defeat someone under those circumstances because you kind of know they have the votes. the person has really changed. they have the votes the first time. that is the precisely she was confirmed, 53 votes, she got three republican votes, all democratic votes. there is a certain political logic there that seems pretty compelling. absolutely. not only have they proven that they have gotten the votes, in amy coney barrett s case, tim
allegations of sexual misconduct going back to high school. when we look at the media short list headed by ketanji brown jackson, do you expect the press to use a similar standard to what we saw with kavanaugh? i expect a very different type of confirmation battle just because there has been a tendency on left to use smear campaigns against justice nominees who are nominated by a republican president. and you just don t see that on the left. but what i do hope is covered in the media is how each of these candidates that are being floated are pretty radical and demand justice, which is a left-wing sort of secretly-funded group that has been behind a lot of biden nominees, gave a lot of money and support to joe biden to become president, they have been able to get a lot of their nominees out. andpeople don t pay so much attention to federal judges, but