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It looks like President Biden will appoint the first black woman to ever serve on the United States Supreme Court.

What progress do we still need to make for women in the law?

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My name's Renato Mariati.

I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer,

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All right, so Patty, I have to say I really thought the recent news about President Biden appointing

a black woman to the Supreme Court.

We don't know who it is yet, but we know it's going to be a black woman, at least that's what the

president has indicated. It's almost like a roar sharking plot to me. Your views

on this to me tell you more about yourself than they do about Biden.

I mean, there's so I've gotten so many people telling me, you know, they're

concerned or, you know, upset about it and to me it reveals more about them than it does

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