Hot Takes On The New IPCC Report
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🗓️ 8 April 2022
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Summary
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice on Thursday, and the first former public defender to sit on the high court. Three Republicans crossed party lines to support her, including Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Mitt Romney of Utah.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report this week saying that global emissions need to peak by 2025 at the latest in order to have a chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. Amy Westervelt, an investigative climate journalist and co-host of Crooked’s “Hot Take,” joins us to discuss these findings and what they mean.
And in headlines: The trial in the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi will be relocated from Turkey to Saudi Arabia, nearly 500,000 people are without electricity in Puerto Rico, and Alabama’s state legislature approved a bill to criminalize gender-affirming medical care for trans youth.
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Crooked’s Hot Take – https://www.crooked.com/podcast-series/hot-take/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 8th. I'm getting arrested. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Treville Anderson and this is what a day, we're making it known that if we suffer |
| 0:13.2 | a life-changing injury like Tiger Woods, we might not continue podcasting. |
| 0:18.4 | Yeah, we admire his resolve. We don't want to make any guarantees until we talk to a doctor. |
| 0:23.8 | And Mike will still be there for us when we have recovered and so will you, dear listener. |
| 0:31.2 | On stage show, a power plant fire knocked out electricity for more than a million in Puerto Rico. |
| 0:36.7 | Plus, New York's Attorney General moved to hold Trump in contempt of court. |
| 0:40.8 | But first, on this vote, the A's are 53, the A's are 47, and this nomination is confirmed. |
| 0:50.2 | That is the sound of Vice President Kamala Harris yesterday reading out the vote tally that |
| 0:55.6 | makes judge Katangi Brown Jackson the first black woman to be a Supreme Court justice. |
| 1:01.4 | She will also be the first former public defender to sit on the high court. |
| 1:04.7 | Yeah, I missed the actual historic moment when this was happening. |
| 1:09.4 | There's YouTube, you'll be fine. |
| 1:10.7 | Yeah, I'll catch up. But I did watch the confirmation hearings that did feel quite contentious |
| 1:17.0 | at times. So how did the vote end up going? |
| 1:18.9 | Yeah, so at first, Republicans did their best to paint soon to be Justice Jackson as a liberal |
| 1:25.3 | extremist and someone who has coddled criminals in hopes of derailing her nomination. |
| 1:31.3 | But when it was all said and done, three Republicans crossed party lines to support her, |
| 1:36.3 | including Senator Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and the one and only |
| 1:41.9 | Mitt Romney of Utah. |
| 1:44.0 | As the votes were cast, President Biden and Judge Jackson watched together from the White |
| 1:48.3 | House's Roosevelt room. |
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