warnings from an expert straight ahead this hour. but i want to start now with cnn s supreme court analyst steve ladek 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. good evening to both of you. susan, president biden gets a supreme court pick, a chance to turn a new page in his presidency, a way to shore up the base and fulfill a big campaign promise. but still, it probably won t be an easy road, will it? in these divided times that we re living in right now. you know, nothing is easy, don, anymore in our politics. i mean, for president biden it s really full circle. as the chairman of the judiciary committee he was around three decades ago helping to preside over the confirmation hearings of justice breyer. now he ll get to pick his replacement. i m struck by the initial tone from conservatives which has not been fire-breathing, you know, this
cnn.com/full circle or watch it on the cnn app at any time on demand. the news continues with jim acosta and democracy in peril. thank you very much. i m jim acosta, and this is democracy in peril. tonight as we continue our series, we have to consider this very serious possibility. we are going to take back america. this is so important. [ cheers and applause ] and in 2024, we are going to take back the white house. now, despite all of the lies donald trump tells, this could actually come true. remember 2015 and that escalator ride into all of our lives. a lot of people didn t take him seriously before that. there was a lot of disbelief he would actually follow through on his bluster of running the first time. so this time around, we might want to believe him. we have no reason not to believe he s running again, which means the nation would be facing the nightmare scenario of a wannabe dictator who incited a violent insurrection in which people died, attempting to re
and she has a long and very stellar academic trail, having graduated from harvard and harvard law school. then clerked on the supreme court. then was in private practice for a few years and then as i said became a maybe i didn t say, became a public defender. which is very important because biden has stressed that he wants to have a diversity, not just of demographics but of experience. and she represented indigent defendants accused of crimes, several of the members of the court are former prosecutors, but i don t think there has been anybody that has represented people that were accused of crimes since thurgood marshall and that s a long time ago. he was the first african american justice on the supreme court. so the other leading contender is leondra kruger. and she is a justice on the california supreme court. like ketanji brown jackson, she has stellar legal credentials. interestingly, she was hired by the republican solicitor general of the united states to be an assi
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 his ow
us. we begin with the news that broke yesterday with the supreme court. justice breyer plans to step down at 28 years on the bench. his formal announcement could come as soon as today. his decision gives president biden a chance to name his replacement while democrats still control the senate. nbc news justice corner pete williams has the details. reporter: people close to justice breyer say he made the decision to step down within the past several weeks and prepared to formally notify the white house this week. at age 83, he is the court s oldest justice and appears to be in good health. he remains highly productive, writing last term as, some of last year s decisions. he knows how washington works. he was well aware some progressives said justice ruth bader ginsberg stayed on the court too long despite battles with cancer. he death allowed president trump to appoint amy comey barrett. he said last fall he knew of the pressure for him to step down. most of the considerat