arguments that these two camps are making. what are the differences? well, the jackson camp says we need somebody different who represented little people. the kruger camp says this is one of the true judicial stars of our time, she can go toe to toe with any of the conservatives and like breyer try to bring along some consensus on a court where liberals, even moderate liberals, are incredibly outnumbered. this is a conservative, super conservative, super majority. nina totenberg, thank you for being with us this morning. it is my pleasure. a tennessee school board has banned the critically acclaimed graphic novel mouse . it is a true story about the horrors of the holocaust by art spiegelman and it depicts jews as mice and nazis as cats. one school board member commenting on the book saying, quote, it shows people hanging, it shows them killing kids, why
and she has a long and very stellar academic trail, having graduated from harvard and harvard law school. then clerked on the supreme court. then was in private practice for a few years and then as i said became a maybe i didn t say, became a public defender. which is very important because biden has stressed that he wants to have a diversity, not just of demographics but of experience. and she represented indigent defendants accused of crimes, several of the members of the court are former prosecutors, but i don t think there has been anybody that has represented people that were accused of crimes since thurgood marshall and that s a long time ago. he was the first african american justice on the supreme court. so the other leading contender is leondra kruger.
and she is a justice on the california supreme court. like ketanji brown jackson, she has stellar legal credentials. interestingly, she was hired by the republican solicitor general of the united states to be an assistant solicitor general. this is prior to her becoming a justice. and on the state supreme court. and she then went on to serve six more years after that in the obama administration, becoming the deputy solicitor general and arguing 12 cases. so at the age of 38, she was plucked by jerry brown on to the state supreme court of california, where she has earned a lot of acclaim and has a record that is very kind of moderately liberal cautious record. and, nina, the if you look at the two leading candidates, judge jackson s 51, judge kruger is 45, how much is age going to