biden appear here at the white house tomorrow. speaking of amy coney barrett, for some reason that election year rule that mitch mcconnell came up with suddenly did not was not relevant then. let s talk more about amy coney barrett now, laura, because i want to play something. we sometimes hear from supreme court nominees during their senate confirmation hearings. this is her when asked if roe v. wade was correctly decided. watch. it s inconsistent with the duties of a sitting judge and therefore has been the practice of every nominee that sat in this seat before me to take positions on cases that the court has decided in the past. as i ve said to your colleagues, i just it s not up to me to be in the business of expressing views. so laura, you see there she wouldn t give an answer. and today the current 6-3 conservative court is deciding on abortion rights. these decisions have huge consequences. they re taking up affirmative action next term. and that s so true.
process. so what comes next? obviously even in a world with fast-paced developments, the president wanted to give the sitting associate justice of the court the chance to be the first and also the president was in an event with a number of ceos and that was not the time or the moment that he wanted to announce anything. so we would expect there will be an event at the white house when the white house is ready to do that, along with the justice, a chance to celebrate the work and the legacy of justice breyer, and then at that point, the real search heats up and sort of they open the floodgates for all the sides to weigh in and that kind of thing. we have some steps to go and it will certainly be intense. no official announcement has been made, no official confirmation has been named but one that is out there i mentioned a moment ago, judge katanji brown jackson.
items like the voting rights and build back better bills both stalled, right? and with midterms looming, quite frankly. there are also these are the front-runners i m going to put up for you. take a look at your screen. knees are the front-runners right here for the court. one of them could very well be our next supreme court justice. lindsey graham putting out a statement saying, and i quote, if all democrats hang together, which i expect they will, they have the power to replace justice breyer in 2022 without one republican vote in support. elections have consequences. and that is most evident when it comes to fulfilling vacancies on the supreme court. that is from lindsey graham. fun fact, though. lindsey graham was one of the three republicans who voted to confirm judge katanji brown jackson to the court of appeals for d.c. circuit court just a few months ago. the others were susan collins and lisa murkowski. if judge jackson becomes a nominee, if she does in fact
the top name in speculation right now judge katanji brown jackson, joe biden recently appointed to the d.c. circuit court of appeals to replace merrick garland. jackson is a former clerk of justice breyer, confirmed in a 53-44 majority by the senate. joining me is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, chief legal correspondent and host of the beat ari melber, kelly o donnell and slate legal correspondent dahlia lithwick. pete, you broke this news. justice breyer himself has not announced it or made it official but can you tell us anything about the decision-making process behind his decision to retire? well, our understanding is he came to this decision within the last several weeks. he s obviously in good health. he is 83. he s the court s oldest member but that apparently did not his age or health did not play a
nominees, as did many other republican senators. they have been many of them have felt that the president in power should be able to make his nominations to the court. not all of them. but i think some of them will. and i wouldn t be surprised to see more than a few vote for, say, judge jackson and maybe some of the other potential nominees that could be offered by president biden. all right. we ll see. thank you both. i appreciate it. unhappy with your child s teacher? snitch on them to a government tip line. that s what virginia s republican governor wants people to do. stay with us. so when she moved in with us, a new kitchen became part of our financial plan. find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com