Can boycott hearings, they can boycott votes. it won t derail it altogether, but it could slow them down. the ranking member on the senate judiciary committee chuck grassley indicated he has no appetite for that. of course, republicans are going to take their lead from the minority leader mitch mcconnell who is well versed in how to navigate the supreme court battles. and republicans right now aren t in a very good position to take back the midterms. he likely will advise his caucus to do their due diligence to push back where they can. republicans have to weigh how far they want to take this, how bitter they want this to become, especially with such a historic nominee. and as you noted, several republicans have already voted for her to join the appellate court. so it would be quite the switch aradio. eva mckend from capitol hill, thank you so much. let s talk to cnn political
President biden made history on friday by nominating judge ketanji brown jackson as his supreme court pick. if confirmed, judge jackson will be the first black woman to sit on the nation s highest court. she s currently on d.c. s federal appellate court and she s been considered the front-runner for the vacancy since justice stephen breyer announced his retirement. judge jackson said she hopes to inspire others. if i m fortunate enough to be confirmed as the next associate justice of the supreme court of the united states, i can only hope that my life and career, my love of this country and the constitution and my commitment to upholding the rule of law and the sacred principles upon which this great nation was founded will inspire future generations of americans. here to discuss this historic
Biden to give him a win? because this would be a win in his column. well, that s right. i mean, look, clearly the biden team, and they did a really good job of teeing this up. i think they re going to signal to the senators, look, this is going to happen anyway. you could either try to score points and then lose or quietly move on to something else and then lose. i don t know that they have the votes. it s go to be very narrow, divided senate, of course. but the reality is they already have such an ideological imbalance on the court. that if anybody who wants to make an argument for it s a conservative court, they ve already got one. so, it s not necessarily a fight that they need to throw a lot of resources into. again, we ll see, you know, there are candidates who want to be president of the united states, senator hawley, senator cruz, they re going to try to showboat. senator graham likes to be on
Clear that s what he plans to do. while that s happening, though, i think a different conversation can break out if the democrats are wise about it which is to emphasize the diversity, not just gender and race, but the diversity of legal experience that jackson would bring to the bench. meaning she s one of the few who has actually ever represented clients. who actually was a lawyer to help in a criminal case. one of two, along with sotomayor is also a local court judge that has heard cases. we have that represented on the supreme court now, and while the politicians will play games, those who want to aptly move the conversation forward will try 0 shift the conversation away from what democrats want and republicans more and more importantly what the court and country needs. those may be the conversations they have, errol, but is anybody ready who opposes
Moment is constitutional law professor at jon jay college of criminal justice and also the author of she took justice law and justice gloria browne-marshall. gloria, thank you for sharing part of your weekend with us. if confirmed, judge jackson would be a historic pick. obviously a huge moment for the nation. what do you make of this pick by president biden? well, i think it s a powerful moment in history, but it s not just the nomination. it s the power she ll have on the court. we have nine members of our community, five of whom can create the law of the land. and for the president of the united states, and congress. so, she will have a mighty task in front of us and a lot of power in her hands. gloria, when you look at her list of accomplishments, and
Thugs stick together. it s in the end a battle of dictatorship versus society. russian dictators are on one side, not our side, the other side. for them, any sense of ideology, or any interests, it s as simple as that. they think they re against us. and you can bet folks in taiwan are watching the two frenemies to see what conversations are ahead down the road. josh rogin, thank you. coming up a historic pick for the nation s highest court. we ll tell you about the woman on track to become the nation s first black supreme court justice, female. also, the cdc makes a big shift in changes on guidance on masks. what this means for you and your family. stay close.
So president biden nominated ketanji brown jackson to the supreme court. this puts in motion a historic confirmation process for the first black woman to sit on the highest court in the nation. judge jackson currently sits on d.c. s federal appellate court and she d been considered the front-runner for the vacancy since the retirement of justice stephen breyer. cnn s jeff zeleny has more details. reporter: boris and christi, a historic selection shrouded in secrecy for the last several weeks. we are learning that president biden met with three candidates on valentine s day, february 14th. for individual interviews at the white house. and he finally went into a meeting with judge jackson and she was at the white house on friday. for too long, our governments
Eva is on capitol hill. can you outline some of this pushback he s getting? yeah, republicans are pouncing early on everything from her educational background, taking his anti-intellectual view that somehow being ivy league educated is a bad thing. also knocking her on her record, and crime, as well as her support from liberal groups. this is no surprise. i ve been around for several of these supreme court nomination battles here on capitol hill. and they are bitterly partisan affairs. the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell a bit of irony here, he, of course, no stranger to money and politics, in a statement, he says in part that judge jackson was the favorite choice of far left dark money groups that have spent years attacking the legitimacy and structure of the court itself. and a lukewarm response from alaska senator lisa murkowski she said it s been clear that
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Many conversations, i think she s brings that relevant part to the court that s important that she is the person that is going to be a brutal hearing process. you know, the brutal hearing process, there were three republicans that voted to put her on the d.c. appellate court. are you looking forward, perhaps, to those republicans also supporting her in this process? because at least one of them, lindsey graham, didn t sound like he was ready for? well, you know, she s the same person they supported before. but when we get to this let me, it s going to be history, and they know it. the idea that they would not support the same person with the same credentials to be on the supreme court. so what they re looking for in a supreme court justice, because she has every quality that s needed. but she also brings with her a sense of history. and i think they want to be on the right side of history at this moment. she has made some rulings