think my fellow guest here would be a great pick for the supreme court, in the future. at the naacp. this is the approach they have taken that lower court nominations. i hope they take it when it comes to the supreme court to. i only laugh because i think it is a great idea as well. i would love to be friends with the supreme court justice. if that were to come about. you have my endorsement, melissa, as well. it does seem like the smart money is on ketanji brown jackson. and there are a lot of reasons for that. can you just tell us a little bit about who she is and why, i think, at least on paper, as a person and judge, there is a very obvious case for her. you are not going to get rid of me that easily, chris. i think you are exactly right. she is the front runner here and she is the front runner for a lot of reasons. she clerk for justice breyer. so, there is nice symmetry there. we saw the same come of symmetry when kavanaugh was she has been a public defender,
at the naacp. this is the approach they have taken that lower court nominations. i hope they take it when it comes to the supreme court to. i only laugh because i think it is a great idea as well. i would love to be friends with the supreme court justice. if that were to come about. you have my endorsement, melissa, as well. it does seem like the smart money is on ketanji brown jackson. and there are a lot of reasons for that. can you just tell us a little bit about who she is and why, i think, at least on paper, as a person and judge, there is a very obvious case for her. you are not going to get rid of me that easily, chris. i think you are exactly right. she is the front runner here and she is the front runner for a lot of reasons. she clerk for justice breyer. so, there is nice symmetry there. we saw the same come of symmetry when kavanaugh was she has been a public defender, she is currently sitting on the d. c. circuit. she was recently elevated to
this mid-term you have more republicans than you did before? then you wind up with another supreme court vacancy. it s a terrible, terrible all terrible options for chuck schumer. the other thing, you know when you re base starts the debate by saying we need to get back to the house and the senate so we can pack the courts and add 15 more justices and make them all it s interesting to the alarm, and the conservatives have been successful, slow and steady over several decades to get to this moments where somebody like brett kavanaugh can go through, have the experience and joe manchin saying what is the reason to vote against him? going back to bush years. you remember the judicial fights. dana: the world was going to come to an end with robert alito as well. before that with the lower court nominations. and miguel estrada is a great
was really back in play, i think you d have a major national issue around that. and a lot of discussion, a lot of politics around that. but as you noted, it s these lower court nominations that don t get much attention but have tremendous long-term implications. ron klain, thank you for being here. let s see what you re saying. what do we got? obvious that trump agenda is to undoo obama s legacy. festus, this is a huge issue. for better or worse, i leave that debate to all of you, but i wanted to shine a spotlight on it because as ron well knows, this is something off the front page of the newspapers across the country. we re caught up in the whole stormy, michael cohen business. i m not underplaying the significance of that. i m just saying this will be with us for the next 40 years because methodically, they are filling those slots with young
was really back in play, i think we would have major national issue around that and a lot of discussion, a lot of politics around that. if you noted, it s these lower court nominations that don t get much attention that really have tremendous long term implicati n implicatio implications. thank you so much for being here. thanks for having me. nc let s see what you re saying on my twitter and facebook pages. this is a huge issue. i leave that debate to all of you but i wanted to shine a spotlight on it because as ron well knows, this is something off the front page of the newspapers akroscross the count. we re caught up in the whole stormy, michael cohen business. this will be with us for the next 40 years because they are filling those slots with young, conservatives and as much