Good morning. Welcome, Axios today. It's Friday, April 8th. I'm Naila Boudou. Here's

what you need to know today. The US gets its first black female Supreme Court justice,

plus state's wage new battles over abortion rights. But first, today's one big thing. Jonathan

Swan presses Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on his moral red lines.

On this vote, the A's are 53, the A's are 47, and this nomination is confirmed.

A historic moment yesterday in the Senate where Judge Katachi Brown Jackson became the newest

Supreme Court justice after a 53 to 47 vote. She will be the first black woman appointed to the

high court. The confirmation marks President Biden's first Supreme Court pick, and it may turn

out to be his only one. That was part of the topic of conversation. Axios's Jonathan Swan had

yesterday morning with Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell repeatedly declined to answer

questions about whether he'll hold any hearings if there's another Supreme Court opening after the midterm

election. I'll be interested in working with the President when he's willing to be a moderate,

but with regard to personnel and the other things that we're involved in. I'm not going to

signal how we're going to approach it. Jonathan, first of all, is this what the GOP strategy

could look like if they were getting the majority? Yes, Mitch McConnell is signaling in this interview

through his non-response that he is at least contemplating, refusing to hold hearings on any

Joe Biden nominee for the Supreme Court. And you remember that he did that in 2016 to Barack

Obama for Merrick Garland. So what we could be seeing is McConnell's leaving open the door to

create a new standard. If you just imagine next year, just visualize this. Republicans win the Senate,

God forbid, but some health crisis takes a justice out of the court. Joe Biden

names somebody he wants to put on the court. And McConnell says, no, I'm coming up with some

new standard for why we're not going to do this. Well, then you've got an eight person court. And

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