Hi, and this is Amicus, Slate's podcast about the Supreme Court and the Law and the Rule

of Law.

I'm Dalia Lithwick.

I host this podcast, and I cover those things for Slate Magazine.

And next week is set to be a historic week for America for the High Court and for the

Senate Judiciary Committee as it holds confirmation hearings for Judge Katanji Brown Jackson,

the first black woman to be nominated to serve on the highest court in the land.

Now, over on Slate Plus, my Jurisprudential Wingman, Mark Joseph Stern and I, are having

a curtain razor conversation looking ahead to what to expect, what to watch and listen

for, and thinking through the implications of this hearing for the court and for our constitutional

democracy.

Here's a brief snippet of our conversation.

There has not been a really coherent opposition to her.

Let's talk about some of the pieces of it.

And as you say, some of it we can just pull from, we heard this at her prior confirmation

hearings.

One piece is the always effective guantanamo as though Americans still are riled that occasionally

lawyers wrote briefs on behalf of Gitmo Detainees.

So that's one strand.

You're rolling your eyes on the Zoom.

So why don't you go ahead and stick your fangs into that one.

If you walk with me way back to 2016 when Obama was considering nominating Jane Kelly

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