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Cases appealed to the supreme court, she would have to decide whether or not to recuse herself from those. she has not said and her chambers have not said, but maybe she will choose to step down for the next few months until the supreme court term ends. this is an unusual thing, because normally they announce the intention to step down at the end of a term and then the confirmation process plays out and the justice goes whipping up to the court just before it convenes on the first monday of octo...

Nominee and the antics we saw today from senators paul rand, were disrespectful to the process, to justice jackson, and disrespectful to the american people. that notwithstanding, we will not let anyone steal our joy. i will also add this, victor, as this confirmation is done, people are naturally looking ahead. we dont know when the next vacancy on the supreme court will be or what the next confirmation process will look like. but to me its a remind eaer ofe stakes of these midterm elections. w...

Confirmation process, former u.s. senator doug jones. while judge jacksons confirmation will be a major campaign promise kept for president biden, its also shaping up to be the last agenda item he gets through congress before midterm elections. with two senators pouring water on his build back better bill, the legislating calendar could come to a close in just a few minutes when the supreme court vote is gavelled. joining me is an eternal optimist, washington democratic congressman pramila jayap...

Presiding over this vote. and we know how the vote will come down. she does have the votes to get confirmed on a narrow majority, 53-47, is the expected outcome here because all 50 senate democrats have been clear theyre voting to support her nomination to the highest court in the land and those three republican senators have broken ranks. mitt romney of utah, susan collins of maine, lisa murkowski of alaska. romney was only one of those three who did not support her nomination to the lower cour...

The court is getting closer to reflecting our country in its glorious diversity. >> nina, same question to you, please. >> well, i have to be somewhat tempered by what has happened to the confirmation process, which clearly is broken. you cant say that ketanji brown jackson was treated always respectfully by some members of the committee. senator lindsey graham now says if the republicans had been in control he would have urged them not to even allow a hearing for her. if thats where we have com...

Idea that yes, representation is great. its great to have what is her girlfriend, because i did talk to the group chat. her girlfriend on the supreme court. but its also it has to be followed up with action. it has to be that the country changes and that this can be a symbol of one black woman on the supreme court, because other things need to happen. part of that is, the senate confirmation process, the supreme court confirmation process, democrats and republicans both say, its awful, its painf...

Day, drew a lot of criticism. we asked him about it, he doubled down on it saying she never should have been representing terrorists in private practice. but when you look at those two things, clearly the majority of the republicans thought those were disqualifying factors. about but all the democrats didnt, and three republicans. >> the fact she has a bipartisan vote is significant for her, for the administration, the fact that she has three republicans who have signed on to this vote is signif...

Our influence to try move the administration in a different direction. >> bret: do you agree that its become toxic? do you think that the confirmation process could calm down from both sides. >> it depends on what your definition of toxic is. justice jackson was treated respectfully. we talked about her record and her record only. if you wanted to talk about the way they treated robert work, bork or brett kavanaugh thats my of a disrespectful process there was nothing during the jackson confirma...

Again, my assumption. and susan collins, sort of the unicorn of the republicans has made very clear that she is willing and does frequently -- not often, but frequently casts her votes in ways that the leadership doesnt particularly love, in judicial nominations not just for the supreme court but lower courts, too, she did oppose some trump nominees that were subsequently confirmed. i think -- i think what we are seeing is how seriously broken the confirmation process is. i think all three of th...

Do you expect him to comment about how the confirmation process has gotten more broken, how theres a lot of calls, you know, when it comes to justice thomas and the whole ginni thomas thing? if hes going to make his concerns known, how would he do that? >> the first answer to your question is no, i dont expect him to do that. he has said privately that he thinks the confirmation process is a mess. i think many justices on the supreme court who have gone through it feel the same way. but hes neve...