she goes to church to using profanity today and his repeated interruptions just like cruz. it s extraordinarily disrespectful and hard not to take as racist and sexist. i want to go to pete williams, our nbc news justice correspondent who is joining us now. he s been watching this hearing as we have been too live this afternoon. so pete, we mentioned to paul just a minute ago the news of this planned recusal that judge jackson i think this is the first time, pete, correct me if i m wrong, that she s been that specific about her intentions. i know she s been asked about recusals more generally but in this instance senator cruz asked specifically about this harvard case. give us the backstory. yeah, she said that s her plan. this is a case that the supreme court will hear next term. it s the latest in a series of cases that have come before the supreme court on whether affirmative action is unconstitutional. the court in the past have left the door open to it. but two of the justic
his decision based upon law. if you spent anytime studying the supreme court justice, he s one that studies correctly. not all that surprising that you would hear kevin mccarthy say that, and is there anything on the other side for folks that have concerns about recusals from supreme court judges in situations like this one? no. the january 6th committee can include this in their research of the january 6th incident. justice thomas is a lifetime appointee, and they can pass a resolution asking him to recuse himself, and i can t imagine they will do so. they can impeach him. nobody is talking about that, and that s the only kind of ultimate power congress has. it s too early to say whether democrats will move to do that. i do not believe that will be the case. i do not believe that there will be support for something that
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