Political Special: Justice Jackson

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🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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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. You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter or post it to our Facebook page. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) The email address for the Political Gabfest is [email protected]. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap, that special edition.
0:10.4	For February 25th, 2022, the Justice Jackson edition, I am David Plotts of CityCast here
0:17.5	in Washington, D.C.
0:19.7	I'm joined, of course, by Supreme Court Savod, Emily Baselon of the New York Times magazine
0:24.9	in Yale University Law School for New Haven.
0:26.8	Hello, Emily.
0:27.8	Hey, David.
0:29.4	We have no John Dickerson today, unfortunately, but no worries.
0:35.0	We have Nate Persley, Professor of Law at Stanford University, Nate.
0:38.8	Welcome back to the Gap Fest.
0:39.8	It's great to see you.
0:40.8	Good to see you too.
0:41.8	So as we're taping on Friday, just a noon time, I don't actually, I just saw the headlines.
0:50.2	I don't know, has Biden officially announced the administration has said that Judge
0:55.0	Katangi, Brown, Jackson will be Biden's nominee to be Supreme Court Justice, to succeed
1:02.1	Justice Breyer in that seat.
1:04.2	Well, he announced it on his Twitter page, but in which I guess is the way these things
1:08.9	are being done now, but the formal ceremony will be in a few hours.
1:13.7	So Emily, this is deeply unsurprising, right?
1:17.1	Once Biden had vowed during his campaign that his nominee would nominate a black woman,
1:22.7	Jackson was very high on everyone's list.
1:25.9	Yes, I think this is a pretty obvious choice for a couple of reasons.
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