Getting to know Ketanji Brown Jackson
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🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Today, a deep dive into the life of Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. Plus, a dispatch from Ukraine, where Russian forces are pressing closer to the capital, Kyiv.
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On Friday morning, President Biden announced his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court: federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Currently serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Jackson is a former clerk for Justice Stephen G. Breyer. If confirmed, she will be the first Black woman and the first former federal public defender on the Supreme Court. Legal affairs reporter Ann Marimow on Jackson’s past, and what she’d bring to the court.
Plus, a dispatch from Ukraine, where Russia is advancing on the capital, Kyiv. Our foreign correspondent Siobhan O’Grady reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:09.6 | Today it's official. |
| 0:11.0 | Gatangi Brown Jackson will be President Biden's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 0:15.4 | Thank you very much, Mr. President. |
| 0:17.9 | I am truly humbled by the extraordinary honor of this nomination. |
| 0:24.5 | And I am especially grateful for the care that you have taken in discharging your |
| 0:29.5 | constitutional duty and service of our democracy with all that is going on in the world today. |
| 0:38.1 | Jackson is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. |
| 0:40.8 | She is a former clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer, who's seat she would be filling. |
| 0:45.0 | If she's confirmed, she will be the first former federal public defender on the Supreme |
| 0:49.4 | Court. |
| 0:50.8 | And she will be the first black woman. |
| 0:53.6 | At a ceremony at the White House on Friday afternoon, she talked about the trailblazers |
| 0:57.6 | who came before her and what her nomination represents. |
| 1:02.6 | I can only hope that my life and career, my love of this country and the Constitution, |
| 1:09.7 | and my commitment to upholding the rule of law and the sacred principles upon which this |
| 1:16.1 | great nation was founded, will inspire future generations of Americans. |
| 1:23.5 | Thank you again, Mr. President, for this extraordinary honor. |
| 1:31.1 | Now that Jackson is the nominee, Senate Democrats are moving fast to get her confirmed as quickly |
| 1:36.0 | as possible. |
| 1:37.4 | Dick Durbin, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has said publicly that he |
| 1:41.1 | wants this done by Easter recess, which is scheduled to start on April 9th. |
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