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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

President Biden’s First Supreme Court Pick

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

President Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill Justice Breyer’s seat on the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman to hold a seat on the court. What does her backstory say about her as a jurist?  Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer for Slate.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama.

0:05.6

The young gentleman's name would be...

0:08.3

Oliver, Oliver Twist.

0:10.7

...with Brian Cox as Fagan.

0:12.9

What have you seen? Street boy.

0:14.9

Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Caluia as Bill Sykes.

0:19.3

Oh, look at me like a hello to my lawyer.

0:21.3

I love you, baby.

0:22.3

...with original music by Dan Gillespie Cells.

0:25.7

Subscription required, see audible.co.uk for terms.

0:36.4

Here's how sure Slate's Mark Joseph Stern was.

0:39.7

The President Biden was about to nominate Judge Kintanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

0:46.1

He only prepared a single article to go out when this nomination got formally announced.

0:51.8

And it was a profile of Judge Jackson.

0:54.0

It always felt to me like it was gonna be Katanji from day one.

0:58.6

Good afternoon.

1:00.4

You could feel that inevitability as Biden introduced Judge Jackson to the press last week.

1:06.7

The President listed off the kinds of sterling credentials with all come to expect at the court,

1:11.4

an Ivy League education, a list of prestigious clerkships.

1:16.2

Biden almost made it seem like it was an afterthought that Judge Jackson would be the first

1:21.3

black woman to service a justice.

1:24.2

It's my honor to introduce the country, a daughter of former public school teachers,

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