Welcome to MidasTouch Legal AF bonus edition. We have Supreme Court nomination of

Katangi, Brown, Jackson, recap of day one brought to you by Harry P. Littmann.

Harry is a lawyer, a law professor and political commentator. He is a former US

attorney and deputy assistant attorney general. He is the legal affairs columnist for the

Los Angeles Times opinion page and a professor of constitutional law at UCLA and University

of California, San Diego and Harry is someone who has helped prepare Supreme Court nominees

for this confirmation process. We will bring you Harry P. Littmann's confirmation day

one recap right now. Hi, I'm Harry Littmann. Besides having a podcast, I cover the court

quite a bit as the LA Times legal affairs reporter, but also as a former clerk as someone who

in government helped prepare people for nomination battles, including the justice that Katangi

Brown Jackson hopes to replace Stephen Breyer. And I teach a course on the Supreme Court

at UCLA Law School. So with that experience and having seen a few confirmation battles,

I wanted to give you my sense of how things went today for the newest nominee and first

ever African American woman. Hello, MidasTouch Nation. Okay. So day one, today of the Katangi

Brown Jackson confirmation hearings, you didn't miss all that much not to worry. It was

largely opening statements by senators, 22 of them on 11 on each side of the aisle. And

most of them use their 10 minutes for reasons other than really talking to the nominees.

So you had a lot of posturing, especially from presidential candidates. We had three or

four of them. And mainly you had scripted comments. Nevertheless, I've been to a few of these.

And the scripts do tell you something. And I think all in all, it was a pretty good day for the

candidate judge Katangi Brown Jackson. Now, for sure, there was there was some hot rhetoric from

people on the our side of the aisle, especially Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Adley Marsha Blackburn

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