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court. the biggest issues like voting rights and reproductive rights and like we found out this week, affirmative action. now joe biden will make his mark on the high court with news that justice steven breyer plans to retire at the end of his term. he refuses to tell about his intentions, and it means president biden has to nominate someone on the court. it gives him an opportunity to fill that seat for decades to come and to make good on his promise. i m going to make good and get a black supreme justice on that supreme court. no joke. no joke. they offered no specifics from justice breyer. among them, nominee johnson. she was confirmed with the support of all 50 democratic senators and three republicans, susan collins, lisa murkowski and lindsey graham. justice leonore kruger, associate justice of california supreme court, michelle childs, u.s. drikt judge south carolina, leslie abrams gardner and sherri lyn ifil of the naacp legal defense fund. we should be prep ....
dramatic reading of backstage events at that south carolina debate when jim clyburn convinced joe biden, as a candidate, to pledge that moment that he would appoint a black woman to the supreme court. and we just got confirmation from simone sanders that, indeed, she and other biden advisers told him that day, during debate prep, no, don t do it. there is congressman and other members of the black caucus debate prep day, simone sanders and others were telling biden, no, don t do it. and then, at the debate, congressman clyburn goes to him at the commercial the and says you have to do it. and now we are living the history of the results. both in the fact of his presidency and in anticipation of his nomination. yes. and so, the story of that movie, where the costar, clyburn, will be joining us to get his version of it. in composing my thoughts about this, leading into talking to clyburn tonight, i decided in the interest of time, to leave out the names of the pe ....
good evening, i m mehdi hassan. day 372 of the biden administration. and back in 1994, when he was senate judiciary committee chairman, senator joe biden guided liberal justice stephen breyer s confirmation on to the supreme court, 28 years later. 28 years later, biden will get the chance to replace breyer, who had 83 is the courts oldest member. he s expected to retire at the end of this term. to borrow a line from the president, this is a be ftc. bfd. i m also grateful to the senate judiciary committee, especially chair senator biden. president biden said it was up to breyer to formally announce his retirement. justice breyer has the right an opportunity to decide what he is going to do, to announce it. there has been no announcement from justice breyer. let him make the statement he is going to make and i will be happy to talk about that later. nbc news now reports biden will appear with wry or at the white house to more. this will be biden s chance to put ....
moment that he would appoint a black woman to the supreme court. and we just got confirmation from simone sanders that, indeed, she and other biden advisers told him that day, during debate prep, no, don t do it. there is congressman clyburn and other members of the black caucus debate prep day, simone sanders and others were telling biden, no, don t do it. and then, at the debate, congressman clyburn goes to him at the commercial break and says, you have to do it. and now we are living the history of that. both in the fact of his presidency and in anticipation of this nomination. yes. and so, the story of that movie, the costar, clyburn, will be joining us to get his version of it. in composing my thoughts about this, leading into talking to clyburn tonight, i decided in the interest of time, to leave out the names of the people in the biden campaign staff who advised against this. so, you know, who wants to have that on them? and then i turn on the rachel maddow ....
at the end of this term. to borrow a line from the president, this is a bfd. i m also grateful to the senate judiciary committee, especially chair senator biden. formally announces retirement. every justice has the right an opportunity to decide what he or she is going to do, and to announce it on their own. it. there has been no announcement from justice breyer. let him make the statement he is going to make and i will be happy to talk about that later. nbc news now reports biden will appear with breyer at the white house tomorrow this will be biden s chance to put his own imprint on the highest court in the land and it brings a much-needed opportunity for his white house to bring the focus off of their stalled domestic agenda. nbc news reports that biden, quote, learned of breyer s retirement in the middle of last week and is senate democrats have also vowed to act swiftly. remember, amy coney barrett s nomination took just 27 days, a much faster process than us ....