to the united states supreme court. it s long overdue in my opinion. i made that commitment during my campaign for president and i will keep it. he has already been reviewing the writings and the biographies of some of the candidates. it dates back to his time as a candidate, frankly, even as a president-elect where he first received a formal presentation about some of the best potential candidates from some of his top advisors at the time and the focus right now has really narrowed down to a series of individuals. i know my colleagues will get into it a bit further. topping that list right now is a 51-year-old from the court of appeals in the circuit ketanji brown jackson who you see on the left. significantly the reason her name gets a lot of focus because she was confirmed on a bipartisan basis by the senate, hallie, last june with all 50 democrats and three republicans. lindsey graham, lisa murkowski
it does provide us a good stepping stone to see the way that democrats might react in this moment and then, of course, you re right. you have to turn your attention to the republicans here. we often every time it becomes supreme court nomination season and we have done three of these in the last five years, you start to look at the people on the republican side who tend to come to the top of this conversation. collins and murkowski were critical during the trump era. when you look at some of the potential replacements here that the biden administration could put forward we know, for example, the way these senators have voted on, for example, judge brown jackson, she had as peter mentioned three republicans cross the aisle and vote to confirm her. of course, those are some of the people we re looking at most closely as we move forward on this. you re right. in terms of the political stakes, kind of the same conversation that we have been having that democrats have the majority and now t