The Confirmation Hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

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🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee held confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is currently a judge on the D.C. Court of Appeals. Questions for Judge Jackson ranged from her judicial philosophy and methodology of constitutional interpretation; to her experience as a public defender and years as a trial court judge; to questions about various constitutional topics, from the First Amendment to the Fourth Amendment and other issues that may come before the Court for review. Lisa Tucker, associate professor of law at Drexel University, and Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU Law, join host Jeffrey Rosen to recap what we learned about Judge Jackson through four days of questioning by the committee. The National Constitution Center relies on support from listeners like you to provide nonpartisan constitutional education to Americans of all ages. Visit www.constitutioncenter.org/we-the-people to donate, and thank you for your crucial support. Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org. Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome
0:09.0	to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:12.7	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress
0:17.8	to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.
0:22.7	This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee
0:24.4	held confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court
0:26.4	nomination of Judge Katanji Brown Jackson.
0:30.1	We've convened two law professors and Supreme Court experts who know Judge Jackson's work well
0:35.7	and who followed the hearings closely.
0:38.3	Dear We The People Listeners, the goal of this conversation is to take a deep dive into the hearings to explore what we learn from them.
0:46.4	Melissa Murray is the Frederick I and Grace Stokes professor of law and faculty director of the
0:50.8	Birnbaum Women's Leadership Network and NYU Law.
0:53.7	She's also one of the hosts of strict scrutiny.
0:56.8	Melissa, welcome back to the people.
0:59.0	It's such an honor to have you.
1:00.4	Thanks for having me again, Jeff.
1:02.2	And Lisa Tucker is an associate professor of law at the Thomas R. Klein School of Law at Drexel University.
1:07.0	She's also the editor of Hamilton in the law, reading today's most contentious legal issues through the hit musical.
1:13.8	Lisa, thank you so much for joining.
1:15.6	Thank you, Jeff. It's been an exciting week.
1:17.8	Lisa, you were in the hearing room for the entire hearings you've known, Judge Jackson, for 25 years who were
1:26.0	students together at Harvard Law School and the goal of this conversation is to
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