Relative youth of so many people, to have their presence felt for decades to come. that s a good thing or a bad thing depending upon how you view their ideology. laura coates, appreciate that perspective. let s bring nia-malika henderson back in. several tweets from black democrats in the house saying they are grateful, thankful for the historic opportunity and the democratic majority leader of the united states senate chuck schumer saying the nominee will get a prompt hearing. welcome. welcome to a bruising fight. reporter: it s going to be so bruising. whenever it happens i think you will see republicans really trying to make this a tough vote for some of the senate democrats who are up in 2022. some of these folks have already gotten the thumbs up from folks in the senate. i think given how high profile this will be, given the fact we know republicans will try to make 2020, those midterms, a referendum on the culture wars whether or not democrats are too woke is a conversation g
Almost three decades because progressives want to have that chance before the november midterm elections to get a biden nominee to the court. so big news today justice stephen breyer, we ve learned, will, in fact, retire. john? look, the justices all say they try to shield the court from politics. they shield themselves from politics. as you mentioned justice breyer served as an aid to ted kennedy for a long time. he also understands the pressure on him. the raw politics if the republicans take control of the senate and if breyer waited much longer and we were after the november elections and republicans were going to take power in january mitch mcconnell would make clear we won t take up a biden pick. there will be a fight over any biden pick but at least now the president gets to make his pick while he has a 50/50 democratic senate with the vice president kamala harris making the key deciding vote. reporter: exactly. and still plenty of time left in the court s term. usually they
Analyst, laura coates. let s hear from justice breyer because he knew about the pressure. democrats, remember, ruth bader ginsburg was sick in the obama days. she stayed in the fight and, bless her, she was a warrior. a lot of liberals thought we lost that, we lost the opportunity to republic place ruth bader ginsburg. justice breyer said, eh, listen. what do you say to people who argue that you should retire as soon as possible while the democrats have the senate majority? that s the basic issue those pro protesters are saying? that s their point of view. there are a lot of considerations. i don t want to add to what i ve said tonight. every time i add something it becomes a big story. the less i add, the better. i think i have most of the
Likely going to be a black woman be a prominent figure in these culture war debates and fights that republicans are so expert at hanging around the necks of democrats. so it is going to be just, i think, a really vicious, ugly fight and debate that we see over whoever this woman is, likely a black woman, this sumner a runup to the midterms. i want to thank all of our reporters, correspondents and analysts hustling. chuck schumer is an optimistic man. he says the pick will be considered and confirmed by the full senate. we ll see how this plays out. justice breyer was the last of the supreme court confirmation hearings joe biden presided over as chairman of the senate judiciary committee. we ll see you tomorrow. ana cabrera picks up our coverage after a quick break. share the love event, h u we are proud to have donated over two hundred and twenty five million dollars to charity.
Amy kagan, there are those who did vote for those nominations. kagan had 63 votes back in 2010 and sonia sotomayor as well. they had 60 senate seats and 59 in that senate majority, but they were able to peel off some republicans like susan collins, li lindsey graham. a lot has happened in the last dozen years, but there is, assuming some republicans potentially like a lisa murkowski who voted against brett kavanaugh on the court, she could be in play here. there is a lot of opportunity for the democrats to get a replacement confirmed, get their party in line, potentially pick off some republicans as well. this will had still be a huge fight. it will still be a big effort and a huge focus of this senate to get this through but at the moment, john, the chance for