list, as we ve talked about, has been ketanji brown jackson. because she checks a lot of boxes. she s a former breyer clerk. she was recently confirmed to one of the most powerful federal appeals courts in the country. and she checks the boxes for what biden has been talking about. he said that he wanted diversity, professional diversity. she s also served time as an stand public defender. there are others. leondra kruger who sits on the california supreme court. she has a lot of friends in the obama administration. she served in the solicitor general s office. and another judge who is up for the d.c. circuit. michelle childs. you re going to hear other names come up in the next couple days because people will push for their favorites. a lot of people are looking at the fact if he moves quickly, he could do so with ketanji brown jackson there.
the right opportunity to decide what he or she is going to do and announce it on their unpaired and bill clinton nominated stephen breyer back in 1994, joe biden was there. judge and mr. breyer, welcome. delighted to have you here. now, some 28 years later, biden will nominate breyer s replacement. the list likely candidates includes federal judge ketanji brown jackson. a former breyer law clerk and leondra krueger, justice on california supreme court. some wondered today if another candidate for the court, say someone close to the president, might garner a closer look. with someone who was attorney general of a large state and who served with many senate votes to be an candidate to the president for an open supreme court to question mike i see we did there for the present has any intention of running for reelection and for running for reelection with
contours of federal law. so she has that experience and, of course, before that, she was eight years as a federal trial court judge, too. and that s additional experience that she ll bring to the court. plus she has some experience the court hasn t seen for 40 years. she s a former federal public defender. and not since thurgood marshall was on the court has there been someone who has legitimate experience defending criminal justice defendants. and she also served on the u.s. sentencing commission which is another thing she has in common with stephen breyer and she s a former breyer clerk. there s lots of things in her background that would add to the experience of the court. pete, thank you. you ve got more reporting to do. aly, let s look ahead to what s going to happen which is the confirmation process. you may have just seen that flow chart up. that is how things are going to go. it is a lengthy process but it s expected to be accelerated. as we re coming on the air in the last c
support from the past for one reason, hallie. think back to when mr. biden was a candidate and when he made that promise that he was going to govern with bipartisanship. he s been criticized for not doing that enough. this is a chance for him to pick someone who could potentially get bipartisan support for all of the reasons that ali mapped out. we do not know where these senators will fall ultimately. but clearly the president and white house looked at that very list you just laid out and that was undoubtedly something that bolstered the credentials of judge jackson. we consistently asked the administration how important this bipartisanship in this process and they acknowledge, look, it s certainly a factor. the white house also consistently said that the president wanted to pick someone in the mold of justice breyer. of course, as pete said, judge jackson was a clerk for justice breyer. so what happens now? i can tell you that the team that s been working on this pick has been really
justice stephen breyer because of her experience as a public defender. because of because she s a different person. she s a black woman than justice stephen breyer was. so she ll bring that to the table as well. there s often a narrative at confirmation hearings about justices as umpires who call the balls and strikes. but the truth is that the law will often only get you so far. the supreme court decides cases because they are hard. they come to the supreme court often because lower courts have reached different conclusions on them and they look to the supreme court to figure it out. and the justices have to bring something to the table whether it s their life experiences, their judicial philosophies. and so she ll bring that to the table. she ll bring a different style than justice breyer. i think you saw it on display in the white house ceremony today. she s very warm. she s very relatable. and i imagine we ll see that on the bench as well. tally, you were a former clerk to just