#1481 A New Voice of Dissent on the Supreme Court (Ketanji Brown Jackson)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Air Date 4/6/2022
Today we take a look at the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, what her confirmation would mean for representation on the court and what the hearing tells us about the state of our politics.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: By Any Measure, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is Qualified - David Pakman Show - Air Date 3-24-22
By any objective measure, Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, is eminently qualified to be a Supreme Court Justice
Ch. 2: Anita Hill on the Supreme Court’s Future Part 1 - Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick - Air Date 3-12-22
The upcoming confirmation, and what it means for the court’s future—and for America’s future.
MARK JOSEPH STERN, legal journalist from Slate, explains the latest news out of the US Supreme Court, beginning with the Senate confirmation hearings last week for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Joe Biden's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy are following the lead of Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and celebrating joy in this historic nomination.
Speaking with legal analysts Imani Gandy and Dahlia Lithwick about Republican embrace of disinformation.
Ch. 6: Anita Hill on the Supreme Court’s Future Part 2 - Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick - Air Date 3-12-22
The upcoming confirmation, and what it means for the court’s future—and for America’s future.
Ch. 7: ITT Sound Off: Saving the Supreme Court - In The Thick - Air Date 3-25-22
Elie Mystal writes in The Nation: “It was emotionally affecting to watch Jackson, a ridiculously accomplished Black woman, be forced to dance to the tune of these mediocre white senators who were trying to reduce her to a caricature.”
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Cory Booker speaks out about the hope he feels about Ketanji Brown Jackson joining the Supreme Court
Black listeners call in to talk about what it meant to see the judge up there, and react to more of Sen. Booker's words and Judge Brown Jackson's tearful reaction.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 10: Response to Maria on puberty blockers - Sophia from Texas
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 11: Final comments on motivated reasoning, wild guesses and edge cases
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning the Best of Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.0 | take a look at the nomination of Judge Katanji Brown-Jackson to the Supreme Court. |
| 0:12.5 | What her confirmation would mean for representation on the court and what the hearing tells us |
| 0:17.5 | about the state of our politics. |
| 0:20.3 | Spoiler alert, it is not great. |
| 0:22.8 | Clips today are from the David Pakman show, Amicus, the Bladcast, Boom-Loyered Democracy |
| 0:29.0 | Now and in the thick with additional members only clips from Democracy Now and the Brian |
| 0:34.9 | Lairer show. |
| 0:42.0 | I think it's important to take an objective look at how qualified Judge Jackson is and by |
| 0:49.1 | any, any, any measure, any objective measure. |
| 0:54.0 | Judge Katanji Brown-Jackson is or would be one of the most qualified Supreme Court justices |
| 1:02.1 | in recent history. |
| 1:03.4 | And this is not going by vague ideology-based opinions or anything subjective, merely looking |
| 1:11.1 | at the facts of her experience. |
| 1:14.0 | It is hard to find a more qualified Supreme Court justice recently. |
| 1:18.2 | Now, I know many of you as we get into this are going to say, but hold on a second, David, |
| 1:22.6 | if Amy Coney Barrett can be on the court, if Kavanaugh can be on the court, why is this |
| 1:29.6 | even a conversation? |
| 1:30.6 | And of course, you would be completely correct to frame it in those terms. |
| 1:35.2 | But because it is worth actually thinking about the experience of a potential Supreme |
| 1:40.1 | Court justice, we're going to look at it and there's a very good chart out which looks |
| 1:44.8 | at the recent, the current justices and compares Judge Jackson's experience and what you |
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