meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Today, Explained

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee is historic but may have little impact on American law. Vox’s Ian Millhiser explains. This episode was produced by Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Cristian Ayala, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained  Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Slack. With Slack, you can bring all your people and

0:05.9

tools together in one place. It's your digital HQ where you can increase productivity,

0:11.1

enable flexibility and automate workflows. Plus, Slack is full of game-changing features

0:16.7

like huddles for quick check-ins or Slack Connect, which helps you connect with partners

0:20.9

inside and outside of your company. Slack, where the future works. Get started at

0:26.9

Slack.com slash DHQ. Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible

0:34.3

original drama. The young gentleman's name would be Oliver. Oliver Twist. With Brian

0:41.2

Cox as Fagin. What have you seen? Street boy. Nikola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel

0:47.2

Caluia as Bill Sykes. Oh look at me like a hello to my lawyer. I love you, baby. With

0:52.2

the original music by Dan Gillespie Cells. Subscription required. See audible.co.uk for terms.

1:05.0

Good afternoon. Today, as we watch freedom and liberty under attack abroad, I'm here to

1:20.9

fulfill my responsibilities under the Constitution to preserve freedom and liberty. Here in the United

1:27.0

States of America. On Friday, President Jabidon announced his nominee to replace retiring

1:33.1

Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court of the United States. A daughter of former public

1:38.1

school teachers, a proven consensus builder, an accomplished lawyer, but distinguished jurist,

1:46.8

one of the nation's most on one of the nation's most prestigious courts. My nominee for

1:51.9

the United States Supreme Court is Judge Katan G. Jackson. On the show today, Vox's Supreme

1:56.7

Correspondent Ian Milheiser is going to help us understand why Jackson's historic nomination

2:03.3

might not feel quite as game changing as it should. No, I mean, this is an important moment

2:10.3

in that we have reached a point as a country where we are hopefully going to have a black

2:14.2

woman on the highest court. And that is very important. The problem is that she is going

2:19.0

to be a black woman on the highest court that has a six to three Republican supermajority.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vox, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Vox and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.