excellent and outstanding choice. president biden has nominated an incredibly qualified group of nominees for the 41 federal judgeships we ve confirmed so far. that this is one of his most outstanding picks. i am not that concerned, because senator grassley of iowa, ranking republican, has publicly said he will show up. he will not deny a quorum for a hearing. given how republicans played the last three nominations, we shouldn t take anything for granted. it should be a swift, fair, clear process for her confirmation, and i look forward to participating in that confirmation process, and seeing an historic addition to the united states supreme court. senator chris coons of delaware. thank you, as always, to are coming to the sunday show. thank you. next, how majority whip jim clyburn joins me to talk live about the historic nomination to the supreme court and the
has a small squat of clerks who do a surprising amount of the heavy lifting of the legal work of the court. judge ketanji brown jackson, she has been nominated by president biden to the supreme court, she served as a clerk. she was a supreme court clerk to justice stephen breyer, the retiring supreme court justice who seat she may soon inherit. but judge ketanji brown jackson was nominated to the federal appeals court last year, every single clerk who served on the supreme court at the same time as her, all of the clerks for all of the liberal justices, and all of the clerks for all of the conservative justices, they all unanimously signed an enthusiastic endorsement of her for the judgeships. now that she is nominated for the supreme court, we are joined here tonight on the show by one of those clerks who signed that letter, amanda tyler, a professor at the university of california berkeley school of law, she was a supreme court clerk alongside jackson, they have been friends ever sin
assessment. i think especially in the realm of shutting down free speech, of refusing to hear a point of view in a structured environment at a law school, that just shocks the conscience for everything those law students are supposed to be standing for. i was looking up my law school was educating hearts and minds. that says nothing about education in terms of shutting down free speech. there is nothing about opening up parts and minds that involved shutting down somebody else that has a point of view they you may not agree with, that you probably don t even know if you agree with because you haven t allowed them to state it yet. i wholeheartedly support him sending that letter and basically say before you offer these people a very coveted high-profile elite position, think twice about who you are offering it to be a that s not the kind of caliber that we want in our jurisprudence, or that it will groomed to hold judgeships in the future. it s so well said, emily come i couldn t of sai
senate was a more functional body, the republican side would notice this tension building on the democratic side, and they would have adjusted in some way to help relieve that tension because they would fear that the democrats would change the truly. but these republicans have done everything every single day to increase the incentive among democrats to change the rule. right, because democrats realized that the republicans are so ruthless, so contemptuous of democracy that they would abolish the filibuster in a heartbeat, you know, when they get power if it s in their interest. and, by the way, if they get control of the senate, they will prevent any more judgeships from going through. they ll change the rules to make it harder to do . that that. they ll do anything.
and opiate trafficking, which is what is going on right now. because it succeeds, the cartels get more folks to bring them across. the only way to prevent this problem is stop it at the point to which the people enter. sean: what about the role of advise and consent and the type of justices you want on the u.s. supreme court and other judgeships? i think judges should follow the constitution. they should read it carefully and adjudicate conflicts based on what the constitution states. we don t want to legislate from the bench. sean: how concerned are you about the troops amassing on the border with ukraine, vladimir putin? how concerned are you about chinese fighter jets flying over taiwan and china talking about reunification? how are you feeling about lifting the sanctions to iran which joe biden has done? all three are major concerns. let s talk about china for a second.