part, a couple major things. i review as well as her role as a judge in sentencing child sex offenders, particularly those who engaged in child pornography, and he heard of you heard ofthe points there, bn points on her record, the judge s personal life and the like. and as we all will know, she is the first female african american judge to be nominated to the u.s. supreme court. todd: what do you want to learn from judge jackson over the course of this week? the key issue for any judge being in the supreme court is if they will be evenhanded focusing on the law and not on outcomes and results and creating policy on the bench, but doing with the law says.
push that narrative. i don t necessarily know if you re getting all the information. carley: in the hunter biden laptop story first emerged, twitter flagged the link to the new york post original or portly billing it as potentially spammy were unsafe, and users who tried sending the link to the article in october 2020 received this error message from twitter. after the initial report on hunter biden s laptop came out, many in the mainstream media echoed claims from the biden campaign which dismissed it all as russian disinformation. todd: it s pretty tough to spend only two seconds on the story. hunter biden. that s pretty quick. carley: your time is not over! todd: thank you for your time this morning. supreme court nominee ketanji brown jackson set to face tough questions from senators this morning after republicans highlight their concerns over the judge s controversial past. antireligious liberty groups are pouring millions of dollars into a public campaign in suppo
republicans. they will certainly raise that over the next few days as they ask her questions. todd: big picture, are you worried about her ability to move the court progressively left despite the fact that, at the end of the day, they will still be a 6-3 conservative majority? i think there are two things to talk about. she s obviously being named for justice breyer s seat so it s not a net gain if you believe in this idea that it depends who they are nominated by that they are going to vote on the court that way. but the more important question, she is obviously a highly educated lawyer, having gone to harvard for college, graduated magna cum laude and served in a variety of roles to become a public defender on the district court and on the d.c. circuit. she s obviously got a rhetoric capability, a flare with words, and will she be able to move votes on the bench and on the supreme court, both amongst her own colleagues, but also among more moderate conservatives, as
philosophy as a judge. we are going to focus on making sure that americans supreme court gets the justice they deserve. centers on the judiciary committee promising to focus not on race and gender but rather record. since becoming a circuit court judge in june of 2021. i m not interested in trapping her were trying to play gotcha, i m interested in answers. unlike the start to the kavanaugh hearings, we didn t have repeated, choreographed interruptions. no one is going to inquire into your teenage dating habits. no one is going to ask you with mock severity if you like beer. in this hearing, this committee has a responsibility to focus on issues. and the nomination hearings will resume on capitol hill this morning. todd, carley, back to you. carley: marianne rafferty, thank you so much.