Political Gabfest - Special: Justice Jackson
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🗓️ 25 February 2022
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Stanford Law professor Nathaniel Persily joins David and Emily to discuss President Biden’s nomination for associate justice of the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab, that special edition for February 25th, |
| 0:12.0 | 2022, the Justice Jackson edition. I am David Plotz of Citycast here in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm joined, of course, by Supreme Court savant Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine |
| 0:24.9 | in Yale University Law School from New Haven. |
| 0:26.7 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:27.8 | Hey, David. |
| 0:28.9 | And we have no John Dickerson today, unfortunately, but no worries. |
| 0:34.9 | We have Nate personally, professor of law at Stanford University. |
| 0:38.2 | Nate, welcome back to the Gab Fest. |
| 0:39.8 | It's great to see you. |
| 0:40.6 | Good to see you, too. |
| 0:41.7 | So as we're taping on Friday just noontime, I don't actually has, I just saw the headlines. |
| 0:50.3 | I don't know. |
| 0:50.8 | Has Biden officially announced? |
| 0:52.1 | The administration has said that Judge Katanji |
| 0:55.6 | Brown Jackson will be Biden's nominee to be Supreme Court justice to succeed Justice Breyer in that seat. |
| 1:04.6 | Well, he announced it on his Twitter page, which I guess is the way these things are being done now. But the formal ceremony will be in a few hours. |
| 1:13.7 | So, Emily, this is deeply unsurprising, right? Once Biden had vowed during his campaign that his nominee, he would nominate a black woman, Jackson was very high on everyone's list. |
| 1:26.1 | Yes, I think this is a pretty obvious choice for a couple of reasons. |
| 1:30.0 | I think Judge Jackson was the favorite among a lot of liberals. |
| 1:34.1 | And I think also because she'd recently been confirmed to the D.C. Circuit with three |
| 1:38.0 | Republican votes in the Senate, she is the safest, at least in if such a thing is even possible in Washington these days. |
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