Position to stop this. they don t want to look like they are opposing a black woman nominee because of the familiar politics we would hear if there was too much opposition to that. so i imagine what they will do is try to use this as an opportunity to make an argument in the midterm elections that biden is putting progressives on the court, other than that, i don t think they think they can stop it so it s not a hill they want to die on and it s a situation you have a progressive replacing a progressive, so it s not going to change the ideological make-up of the court. trace: what about the president boxing himself in saying he will nominate a black woman. play this from senator ted cruz, he thinks it s offensive. there are black women who are very talented jurists who may
Meeting is a key step for the president to name the nominees to fill the seat of retiring justice stephen breyer. andy, always great to see you. kind of reading through the dick durbin interview he did yesterday off camera and does not seem like he thinks republicans are really planning a gold line stance here. you see some of chuck grassley s comments, the ranking member, he does not seem like, he s also the same, does not seem like republicans are right now willing to put up a lot of resistance. do you get that feeling? andy: i do and i think it s sensible politics, trace. they can t really stop this, the reason it s done now before the midterms is both i think the biden administration and justice breyer in terms of who his successor was going to be wanted the democrats to be able to be in position to put as strong a progressive as they could find on the court. so the republicans are not in
Dick durbin, and talked to andy mccarthy earlier, about the fact listen, the problem is nobody seems to be really laying down the gauntlet. we have not heard any kind of any kind of rhetoric that shows the republicans are going to fight this tooth and nail. sandra: this is a pool spray, just happened at the white house, throw to this and see what they had to say. two friends down here, a lot of supreme court justices together, senator grassley and i, as well as senator durbin and worked with a lot of nominations overall, and supreme court nominations, and one of the president s most serious responsibilities and as i always said, and went back and looked at opening statements i made, apparently dick kind of means we must be beyond 60, chuck, i m