many black women who have shown up, and it s important to remember that these are black women who have worked very hard to be ready for this moment. they are qualified. and it s important that their voices are represented on that court. bakari, congressman jim clyburn telling cnn political analyst laura broom lopez that he thinks this supreme court pick could really reinvigorate the democratic base. do you agree? will this pick help biden with a much-needed reset, so to speak? yeah, i think this pick is about the politics of now but i also think to natasha s point it s something larger than that. for a long period of time, i mean, even going back to rahm emanuel simply blurting out that they didn t have time to deal with the courts, i think one of the most valid criticisms of the obama years was that they did not take the judiciary serious enough. and democrats have not put the judiciary on the ballot enough, although hillary clinton tried to tell us that and tried to talk to us ab
what s going to elevate a black woman to the highest court in the land. what does it mean to have that kind of representation? i think it means everything. i think that there are so many black women who have been fighting for this for a long time. it s important for people to understand that this is not something that started with the biden administration. it went back to the obama administration and beyond. black women have showed up in record numbers at the polls. they ve registered millions of voters. they ve run for office. and so no one is really doing us a favor here. this is a reflection of what democracy is supposed to be. democracy is about representation. but i do think that this moment means something special for so many black women who have shown up, and it s important to remember that these are black women who have worked very hard to be ready for this moment. they are qualified. and it s important that their voices are represented on that court. bakari, congressman ji
analyst laura broom lopez that he thinks this supreme court pick could really reinvigorate the democratic base. do you agree? will this pick help biden with a much-needed reset, so to speak? yeah, i think this pick is about the politics of now but i also think to natasha s point it s something larger than that. for a long period of time, i mean, even going back to rahm emanuel simply blurting out that they didn t have time to deal with the courts, i think one of the most valid criticisms of the obama years was that they did not take the judiciary serious enough. and democrats have not put the judiciary on the ballot enough, although hillary clinton tried to tell us that and tried to talk to us about the importance and the urgency of the courts. but the fact is, don, we ve had 115 supreme court justices in the history of this country and all but seven i believe have been white men. so this is larger than the politics of the day. this is a time where we have to have that fierce urgency
0 his campaign promise to nominate a black woman? the short list circulating in washington signals history s about to be made. and you ve got to hear this. podcaster joe rogan thinks he has the definition of what makes a black person. unless you re talking to someone who is like 100% african from the darkest place where they re not wearing any clothes all day and they ve developed all that melanin to protect themselves from the sun, even the term black is weird. okay. professor michael eric dyson s name coming up as part of this uninformed rant. he joins me just ahead on that. and the country might be sick of covid but the cdc is predicting more than 62,000 deaths over the next month. warnings from an expert straight ahead this hour. but i want to start now with cnn s supreme court analyst steve vladeck and global affairs analyst susan glass here to talk about what is going on with breyer s official retirement has not happened but that s the word that it s going to happen soon. goo