Judge Jackson's Nomination, Translating Global News, and the State of the Union

Our Body Politic

Diaspora Farms, LLC

News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, Farai talks with Georgetown law professor and OBP legal contributor, Tiffany Jeffers about the upcoming SCOTUS hearings for nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Farai also speaks with Marcus Mabry, Senior VP of Content Strategy and Global Pogramming at CNN, about the tools we need to digest important global news coverage (like the ongoing war in Ukraine). On Sippin the Political tea, she reviews the State of the Union and GOP politics with Errin Haines, Editor of the 19th and GOP strategist Tara Setmayer.

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0:00.0	Hi folks, we are so glad that you're listening to Our Body Politic.
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0:17.5	We're here for you, with you, and because of you.
0:20.7	Thank you. Thank you.
0:21.6	This is our body politic.
0:26.6	I'm Farai Chidea.
0:28.6	Russia's invasion of Ukraine has dominated global in U.S.
0:31.6	News this past week.
0:32.6	We've got more on that later in the show.
0:34.6	But right now we focus on a historic moment for the Supreme Court.
0:39.7	Thank you very much, Mr. President.
0:41.9	I am truly humbled by the extraordinary honor of this nomination.
0:47.8	That's the voice of Judge Katanji Brown Jackson.
0:50.9	Last Friday, President Biden nominated Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace
0:55.5	retiring U.S. Justice Stephen Breyer. Jackson currently serves as a federal judge on the U.S.
1:01.5	Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and if she is approved by the Senate, she would become
1:05.9	the first ever black woman justice on the court. I sat down with our body politic contributor Tiffany
1:11.9	Jeffers, associate professor of law at Georgetown University to discuss the nomination.
1:17.9	So why do you think President Biden might have picked Katanji Brown Jackson as his nominee?
1:25.2	Forai, she is so qualified for this position. and I am, I'm beaming right now.
1:31.2	I'm so excited about this nomination.
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