Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 24th, 22, the Deep Sigh

Edition. I am David Flotz of CityCast. I'm in Washington, D.C., a rainy Washington, D.C.

All week as Katanji Brown Jackson stared into the dead eyes of senators and then went out into the rain afterwards.

I'm joined by John Dickerson of CBS Sunday morning. Hello, John. How are you?

Hello, David. It's also rainy here, but we don't want to, it's going to be sunny when people are listening to this. That is true. It's going to be an absolute ray of sunshine, no matter what

the weather around them is. And a living ray of sunshine, who has herself bathed in sunshine,

Ruth Marcus, Washington Post columnist sitting in for Emily today. Ruth, welcome back to the

Gab Fest for the nth time.

Hello.

Hi, good morning.

I am not bathed in sunshine.

I'm bathed in the odd light of the Washington Post recording booth.

It does look like you've been an anointed that you're anunciation of some sort. Indeed, I am here at the Gab Fest.

Thank you.

She's surrounded by black with a pin of golden light on her, on her, the top of her head.

It is, in fact, looks like she's been illuminated by the Great Awakening.

This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee meets Katanji Brown Jackson and Ted Cruz and Josh

Hawley are just as irksome as you would expect them to have been.

Then how can, how should, how will the war in Ukraine end and will it end anytime soon?

Then new domestic abuse and child abuse accusations against Missouri Republican Senate candidate Eric Gritens.

Will they derail his campaign?

Why are there so many abusers or people with unfortunate relationships towards women running for office these days?

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