rights add voluntary kts are the advocates are excited. you bring that up around the white house and they say, yeah, that s cool. that s cool. but look at the police endorsement. look it at the other stuff. i m curious what you think about all that. well, i think it s hilarious, of course. because the beauty of brown jackson is she is so amazingly well qualified. people have to realize, the supreme court takes up a lot of criminal justice cases. every year. yep. i have to teach, you know, the supreme court review each year. and i m always shocked at some of their bad reasoning on some of the cases. and that just shows that they really don t have a grounding in criminal justice law and understanding of what the effect of their decisions will be. so it s very, very important to have somebody who is grounded in criminal law and the white house is making a mistake. they should make that one of her
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at his hearings in 1967, he vowed to represent the u.s. as a judge and discard any past feelings. i m an advocate. i represent the united states government and i ll do it in the best i can. personally, emotions one way or another, once you become an advocate, that s it. over 85% of that senate voted to confirm marshal including most republicans, a by gone era. just 53% of the current senate voted to confirm jackson to her current judgeship. now she s begun meetings with top senators as the white house tapped moderate former senator doug jones to lead her through the process. she starts with what? a ceiling of 53 votes? we re not taking a single vote for granted. you know, in a different time and different place we would get overwhelming support. i m absolutely convinced of that. i ve seen it happen before. jones says her credentials should hold together all 50 democrats and maybe even pick off a few republicans. while this is historic, i want people to look at her
like really proud to be here. and proud to be a part of this. other white house staff reflected on the breakthrough. like deputy press secretary. we re talking about a supreme court that has been around for 230 years and has never had a woman, blake woman on the court. and there is a video out there and people should watch it of the president congratulating and calling judge jackson. i d like you to go to the supreme court. how about that? sir, i would be so honored. i think it s important. you re incredibly well qualified and the court should look like the country. and i mean it. it meant the world to me. as a black woman, as a mother to a young 7-year-old black girl, for her to see that i got to go home and i got to tell her. judge jackson brings more than one type of diversity to the bench. no one on the current court experience as a public defender. representing the accused and the convicted. a background she uses as a judge as she explained in her last confirmation h
qualifications. they re truly remarkable. she finished mag in a couple laud at harvard, couple laud at harvard law school, she clerked for republican and democratic judges, clerked for justice breyer. this is the idea america. that anybody can work hard and become a member of the united states supreme court. she embodies that. she em bodies the american spirit. that s the report from the white house. and we re joined now as promised by barbara arnwine. she is a long time advocate for civil rights. will welcome back. great to be back on your show again, ari. thank you for having me. absolutely. the what do you see of the portrait we get there from the white house which obviously has a very vested interest in pushing judge jackson and some of what we just heard from her? we ll hear a lot more on monday. i can t wait for the nation to hear this woman. to hear her in her own voice and her own commitment.
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