What Next: President Biden’s First Supreme Court Pick

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🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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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	A brand new movie from the Paw Patrol is ready to launch.
0:03.8	Did he say launch?
0:04.8	No, I said launch.
0:07.8	This October, we got superpowers.
0:10.0	Awesome.
0:11.0	Prepare for a movie event so enormous.
0:13.0	Go right in with the big does now.
0:15.0	You'll need to see it on the biggest screen possible.
0:19.0	We're going to need a new name for ourselves.
0:20.5	How about the Paw Patrol?
0:22.0	Paw Patrol.
0:23.0	We're just a little bit extra.
0:24.5	Paw Patrol, the Mighty Movie, it's the first this weekend.
0:27.5	Only in cinema, September 13, book tickets now.
0:36.5	Here's how sure Slate's Mark Joseph Stern was.
0:40.0	The President Biden was about to nominate Judge Kintangi Brown Jackson
0:44.5	to the Supreme Court.
0:46.0	He only prepared a single article to go out
0:49.5	when this nomination got formally announced.
0:52.0	And it was a profile of Judge Jackson.
0:54.5	It always felt to me like it was going to be Katangi
0:57.0	from day one.
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