the picture of the president and ketanji brown jackson watching the vote on c-span. you can see the vote just i guess before it became final, 53-46. by the way, remember the last time the supreme court nominee watched the vote with the president at the white house? that s another bit of history being made here today. affirmative action is a big one, and if she keeps her promise from the hearing won t vote on. and then another congressional redistricting case, the voting rights act and how you manage to make these congressional districts equal in population without disfavoring the race issue and making sure racial minorities are not deprived of electing who they would, and now the supreme court has decided to
the court is getting closer to reflecting our country in its glorious diversity. nina, same question to you, please. well, i have to be somewhat tempered by what has happened to the confirmation process, which clearly is broken. you can t say that ketanji brown jackson was treated always respectfully by some members of the committee. senator lindsey graham now says if the republicans had been in control he would have urged them not to even allow a hearing for her. if that s where we have come to, if you have opposite parties controlling the senate and the white house that you can t get a nominee confirmed, we re in really bad shape in this country. one just hopes that at some point everybody steps back from the precipice and starts looking
in this hearing? i am thinking about a number of you that commented, mr. chairman, about the sentencing guidelines that everybody complains about that needs reform? i will speak for myself. i just find that this was a trial by ordeal. she went through 24 hours of questioning. each one of us had ten-minute opening statements and then 50 minutes minimum, 50 minutes to ask questions. i am not sure that that is really fair to any nominee or i don t believe it s necessary. you don t have to go that far back in history to find nominees that have gone through the judicial committee in a matter of several hours and maybe a day, but now it has become an endurance contest and i don t think that serves the purposes that we are trying to serve. in terms of issues, we have plenty of issues. some were raised during this hearing and others we are working on. i see my friend, amy klobuchar here who is breaking ground in
does officially get seated, just remind us what cases is she going to be hearing come the start of the next term? so the supreme court has already decided to take some big hot-button cases, and one of her first decisions will be to recuse from one of the most important cases that will be argued in the coming term, and that s the challenge to the use of affirmative action in college emissions. the case comes from harvard. she is a graduate from harvard and so are many others on the court, and that s not the issue, but the issue is she s on a policy board at harvard and that puts her in a position and she said at her confirmation hearing that she intends to or plans to recuse herself from that case, and that, of course, would deprive the advocates of the affirmative action there s