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What Next: President Biden’s First Supreme Court Pick

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

President Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill Justice Breyer’s seat on the Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman to hold a seat on the court. What does her backstory say about her as a jurist?  Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer for Slate.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

0:07.0

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up

0:12.7

but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it

0:16.4

and I was so guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now

0:21.6

so for that one change me a little.

0:23.8

Join in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:36.5

Here's how sure Slates Mark Joseph Stern was that President Biden was about to nominate Judge

0:42.2

Kintangi Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. He only prepared a single article to go out

0:49.5

when this nomination got formally announced and it was a profile of Judge Jackson.

0:54.5

It always felt to me like it was going to be Katangi from day one. Good afternoon.

1:00.5

You could feel that inevitability as Biden introduced Judge Jackson to the press last week.

1:06.5

The President listed off the kinds of sterling credentials we've all come to expect at the court

1:11.5

an Ivy League education, a list of prestigious clerkships.

1:16.5

Biden almost made it seem like it was an afterthought that Judge Jackson would be the first black woman

1:22.5

to service a justice.

1:24.5

It's my honor to introduce the country, a daughter of former public school teachers, a proven consensus builder,

1:32.5

an accomplished lawyer, a distinguished jurist, one of the nation's most.

1:38.5

The main thing that struck me when I watched was how different this nomination announcement was

1:44.5

when we saw last time with Amy Coney Barrett because of that announcement,

1:50.5

her whole family came out with her little kids and they just kept talking about how she was a mom.

1:57.5

It was just so different what the President wanted us to focus on when it came to Katangi Brown Jackson.

2:06.5

There was a real study in contrasts between this announcement and all three under Trump.

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