I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Tuesday, June 15th.

We begin today with our monthly Call Your Senator segment with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

So if you are a New York constituent, call your senator segment with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. So if you are a New York

constituent, call your senators. One newsworthy thing from the Senate in the last day before we bring

Senator Gillibrand on, Republican leader Mitch McConnell probably stoked the passions of voters in both

parties when he was asked if the Republicans win control of

the Senate next year, would they confirm a Biden Supreme Court nominee during the presidential

election year of 2024? I think it's highly unlikely. In fact, no, I don't think either party, if it controlled, if it were different from the president,

would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of an election.

McConnell on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, and he didn't stop there when Hewitt asked,

what about a Biden's Supreme Court nominee in 2023?

Well, we'd have to wait to see what happened.

So not even a commitment to bring to a confirmation vote.

Someone nominated in 2023 the year before the next presidential election if Republicans gained control of the Senate next year.

So that's one thing we'll

talk about with Senator Gillibrand, but also her current fight within the Armed Services Committee,

which she's a member of with her fellow Democrat who leads that committee, Jack Reed,

over Gillibrand's Military Justice Improvement Act, as well as what might happen now with

President Biden's physical and

human infrastructure bills, including the child and elder care portions of those two plans,

as well as the voting rights bills currently stuck in the Senate, but with some chance of

enough bipartisanship to pass some of these various bills still as at least a glimmer. Senator, always

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