Skating and SCOTUS
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today on Post Reports, a guide to the judges being considered to fill Justice Stephen Breyer’s Supreme Court seat and make history as the first Black woman on the court. Plus, two Washington Post politics experts talk … figure skating.
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After Justice Stephen G. Breyer announced his plan to retire at the end of the Supreme Court’s current term, all eyes turned to President Biden, who now has the chance to bolster the court’s liberal minority and deliver on a major campaign promise: to nominate the first Black female justice.
On today’s Post Reports, White House reporter Seung Min Kim runs through the professional backgrounds and legal philosophies of three of the judges under consideration – Ketanji Brown Jackson, Leondra Kruger and J. Michelle Childs – and the challenges they could face if nominated.
And later in the episode, non-sports-reporters Phil Rucker and Robert Samuels join Maggie Penman to talk about … Olympic figure skating.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know if you remember this, but back when both of us used to work at Politico many |
| 0:06.8 | moons ago, I just, I remember being in a room with you in the capital and you were talking |
| 0:12.3 | to someone about your like list of life goals and really high on that list was covering |
| 0:16.9 | a Supreme Court confirmation. |
| 0:19.0 | And now it seems like you've done so many confirmation since then, which tells you something about |
| 0:23.7 | what's been going on with the Supreme Court. |
| 0:25.4 | Right. |
| 0:26.4 | Remember that conversation, it's because I had been covering Congress for about, you know, |
| 0:30.6 | maybe five or so years at that point. |
| 0:33.2 | So it's actually really looking forward to seeing what that process was like being a part |
| 0:36.4 | of that history. |
| 0:38.0 | But yes, I have covered maybe like a million by now. |
| 0:41.5 | It's actually this one would be the fourth one I believe in the last five years. |
| 0:45.8 | So that's a lot, but it will be interesting to see it from a democratic perspective when |
| 0:50.2 | it's a democratic White House and a Senate running the show. |
| 0:53.8 | One man Kim covers the White House for the post and though yes, this is the fourth |
| 0:58.5 | Supreme Court confirmation hearing in five years. |
| 1:02.1 | This one is different because of President Biden's promise to make history and nominate |
| 1:07.5 | the court's first black woman. |
| 1:09.7 | But now we're all wondering who's it going to be? |
| 1:15.9 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports, I'm routine powers. |
| 1:21.3 | It's Friday, February 11th. |
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