as judges even though they might be considered or painted as liberal, they have been notably incrementalists is word used for krueger. they have not been sort of warriors or shake it up types. they ve been very careful. maybe that s the gravitational pull of knowing you are in consideration of a supreme court appointment, but both krueger and brown jackson have been solid left center, but not sort of grammatically left. and those are the two that the focus is on now. i want to ask you, mara gay, about the commitment to, it feels competitive. the timeline for coney barrett s confirmation. it was right before the election. it was in and around amid and with covid, literally and figuratively. what do you think about the commitment to confirming anyone of these women in the same
views about the circumstances, the defendants or anything else. a close second choice is california supreme court justice, leondra krueger. a former acting deputy solicitor general in the obama administration, she argued a dozen cases before the high court. while she has not been vetted by the administration, she once clerked for john paul stevens. i think we tend to forget when we re in the outside world that really, conversations about these very difficult cases are confined to a very small number of people. other names circulating, south carolina judge, michelle childs. minnesota district court judge, mimi wright. outstanding defense fund president, sherrilyn ifill. second circuit court of appeals judge, ewan lee and north carolina justice, anita earls. judge childs has been championed
court justice confirmed by a 50-50 senate before in history. every single vote is needed. i hate to even say it out loud. while everyone is relieved that breyer is doing this and confident a new supreme court justice will be confirmed quickly, i don t think it will take long, there is an issue that we have members that are older so you have one health problem and one person not able to be there and the whole thing goes away so it is really pornts and the other thing about this is it s a great opportunity to unify the democratic party. yeah. around whom? let me putt up some of the lists of names that are floating around there. politico has a list as good as any. judge brown-jackson. krueger. she serves on the california supreme court.
a name folks may not know is justice leondra krueger, who sits on the california supreme court. the difference there, don, is she hasn t recently gone through the gauntlet of senate confirmation. possible that she s a bit more of a fight for president biden. i think that s going to be a big chunk of at least the political calculus in the white house in the coming days and weeks. one more for you, steve. what kind of cases will the new justice be considering? we know affirmative action in universities, that s coming up. yeah, i mean, don, i think it s remarkable that we have this coming right on the heels of monday s news that the supreme court s going to take up race-based affirmative action in higher education as early as next term. could be the very first case that this new justice hears. and so you know, we re going to have, don, a very busy summer not just with this confirmation process but with major decisions from the supreme court on abortion, on guns, on environmental regul
roents, kavanagh, ginsburg and scalia. so a proper pedigree for elevation to the court. leondra krueger is a former law school classmate of mine. she is a justice of a california supreme court. she s known for someone who believes deeply in the rule of law and proceeding slowly with regard to precedent. childs is a favorite of james clyburn. she s sort of a wild card candidate because she doesn t have the traditional pedigree, but in some cases, that might be okay. there s a lot of call perhaps diversifying the slate of individuals to include those who don t necessarily have traditional ivy league pedigrees. gardner was my partner at one time and she happens to be the younger center of stacy abrams.