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They ve also called for the court to overturn the seminal 2003 decision that i mentioned just a moment ago. let s not accept you sound like my wife kate who i think takes the same view on this. don t let them off the hook by catastrophizing that the worst is yet to come, because the law is on the side of the right outcome here. so don t take that off their plate. it does strike me. there s politics here. i remember was genuinely kind of horrified and i know a lot of latino people were. it was so gross, it was like dismissive, like this woman, this affirmative action case. i think there s some real political danger here and how the republicans talk about this nominee, honestly. i mean first of all, anybody who is preemptively having a problem with biden s potential nominee of a black woman or all ....
Would? i: republicans right now to be gracious to the nominee. it s in a go through no matter what you do. be gracious, don t be like the democrats, don t torture the nominee. i thought that kamala harris would ve been great, it was the first thing that jumped in my mind. she could be a terrific supreme court justice, she s only in her 50s, she would be there for 30 years. i think you d be terrific. it s a role fit for her. it s not gonna happen. and they ve already put out the d.c. circuit judge, brown jackson, the south carolina district judge. all black women, it s interesting, and steph in the affirmative action as they are considering the affirmative ....
Dismissive, like this woman, this affirmative action case. i think there s some real political danger here and how the republicans talk about this nominee, honestly. i mean first of all, anybody who is preemptively having a problem with biden s potential nominee of a black woman or all like cut their teeth on denigrating the qualifications and credentials and one of the longer term problems that we have is that after these people just showed their backside, showed themselves for the racist charlatans that they are, they were readmitted back into the academy. put back on tv, put back in professor ships, there was never punishment in doing that. they re just going to do it again. that s like a long term problem with our society, i believe. the other thing that people need to understand, you don t get more qualified in a kind of straight up old school ....
Which he said it was ironic that the supreme court was considering an affirmative action case right now. the irony is that the supreme court is at the very same time hearing cases about this sort of affirmative racial discrimination. yes. and while adding someone who is the beneficiary of this sort of quota. the majority of the court may be saying writ large, it s unconstitutional. we ll see how that irony works out. no irony there at all, by the way, to fact check that. joining me, shontel brown of ohio, also a member of the house oversight committee and congressional black caucus. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. just give me first your reaction to what you heard there from the ....
Weigh in on? reporter: oh, well, i mean, right away, at the beginning of next term, there are three bloc busters on some of the most contentious issues of our time. they have a major case on voting rights from alabama. there s an affirmative action case, the use of race in college admissions. and another look at whether or not designers and artists can refuse to take on same-sex couples as clients. so she would hit the ground running, norah. o donnell: jan crawford at the supreme court. thank you. let s turn now to ukraine where the capital city remains under siege. and this just in from president zelensky, a full-scale attack on the city could happen tonight. there are new satellite images that show about 150 helicopters, along with large battalions of russian grundtroops just over the border in belarus. the crisis also triggering fears of a humanitarian disaster, with tens of thousands of ukrainians forced from their homes. russian troopses are closing in on major cities from eas ....