What Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's history as a public defender means for the Supreme Court

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would be the first former public defender on a bench full of former prosecutors and corporate lawyers. What difference would that make on the highest court in the land? Nancy Gertner and Benjamin Barton join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:18.8	Well, hello there, Judge Gertner.
0:24.3	It's good to see you.
0:25.3	Good to be here.
0:27.0	Nancy Gertner is a retired federal judge for those of you
0:30.9	who don't know her.
0:31.7	She sat on the Massachusetts District Court for years
0:35.0	and she's also a senior lecturer on law
0:37.6	at the Harvard Law School.
0:40.1	And before that, she was a civil rights and defense attorney.
0:43.0	So Judge Gertner, about the court that
0:46.9	was not your two above view, the high court.
0:51.3	Here's a question for you.
0:52.3	How many civil rights attorneys
0:55.6	or former defense attorneys have become justices
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