It's Tuesday, March 22, 2022.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

The confirmation hearings for Judge Katanji Brown Jackson began yesterday just as predicted

and just as predictably the battle of ideas ensued.

Now the conversation today did not have a great deal to do

with what was said before the Judiciary Committee

because there wasn't that much said.

It was instead a conversation that took place in the larger culture,

particularly in the commentary class, and most of that conversation was

setting things up for what will happen today in a very long very sustained process of the

hearing where every single member of the committee is to have 30 minutes to ask

questions of the nominee. We'll be talking more about that process in just a

moment but let's understand what did happen yesterday. For one thing there is the

formal introduction of the candidate in this case a nominee to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Yesterday on the briefing we discussed the biography of Judge Katanji Brown Jackson and

she was formally introduced yesterday in the hearing and she had the opportunity to make a response.

Now one of the things we need to observe, given the current way these hearings work,

is that the more a nominee says the more likely the nominee is to say something

wrong that might derail the entire process given the enemies of the nomination

and potentially of the nominee an opportunity to gain some political capital.

So the advice given to nominees is,

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