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An important moment. >> its an enormous moment, especially for black women, the idea of being on the court is huge. and the one justice who consistently raises race on the supreme court is clarence thomas. he often does so from a conservative perspective. it would be really interesting to have another jurist who can speak to the african american experience that is different from justice thomas perspective. >> thank you all for being an incredible megapanel here as weve been juggling this develop...

Court. and i expect hell follow through on that. in the senate, we want to be deliberate. we want to be -- well, let me just say that again. okay. in the senate we want to be deliberate. we want to move quickly. we want to get this done as soon as possible. thank you. okay? thats it. no questions. no. no. >> okay. a short news statement. not a news conference but a statement from chuck schumer whos reiterating what we have heard so far which is the senate will be as you heard him say deliberate ...

Supreme court if the choice is his. heres how psaki handled it. >> the president has stated and reiterated his commitment to nominating a black woman to the supreme court. and certainly stands by that. for today, again, im just not going to be able to say anything about any specifics until justice breyer makes any announcement, should he decide to make an announcement. >> included in that, halley, she was asked when the last time the president and justice breyer may have spoken. she declined to ...

Sure theres a black woman on the supreme court to make sure -- not a joke. not a joke. i pushed very hard for that. >> you have two names reportedly floating around the top of the presidents list. judge jackson and judge krueger. tell us more. >> judge jackson was just elevated last year, shes a former breyer clerk. so the optics of that could be quite appeals to the white house. for example, brett kavanaugh was a former clerk to justice kennedy, and replaced him. judge krueger is an associate j...

Kept. >> among the contenders, ketanji brown jackson, leondra kruger. brown jackson, a former breyer law clerk 51 and twice confirmed by the senate including once by this senate. >> im not ejecting my personal views, im evenhandedly applying the law. >> leondra krueger a justice on californias supreme court, and clerked for john paul stevens, 45, a deputy in the solicitor generals office during the obama administration arguing a dozen cases before the supreme court. >> and mi sheld childs a fede...

List, as weve talked about, has been ketanji brown jackson. because she checks a lot of boxes. shes a former breyer clerk. she was recently confirmed to one of the most powerful federal appeals courts in the country. and she checks the boxes for what biden has been talking about. he said that he wanted diversity, professional diversity. shes also served time as an stand public defender. there are others. leondra kruger who sits on the california supreme court. she has a lot of friends in the oba...

>> the right opportunity to decide what he or she is going to do and announce it on their unpaired >> and bill clinton nominated stephen breyer back in 1994, joe biden was there. >> judge and mr. breyer, welcome. delighted to have you here. >> now, some 28 years later, biden will nominate breyers replacement. the list likely candidates includes federal judge ketanji brown jackson. a former breyer law clerk and leondra krueger, justice on california supreme court. some wondered today if another c...

Contours of federal law. so she has that experience and, of course, before that, she was eight years as a federal trial court judge, too. and thats additional experience that shell bring to the court. plus she has some experience the court hasnt seen for 40 years. shes a former federal public defender. and not since thurgood marshall was on the court has there been someone who has legitimate experience defending criminal justice defendants. and she also served on the u.s. sentencing commission w...

Support from the past for one reason, hallie. think back to when mr. biden was a candidate and when he made that promise that he was going to govern with bipartisanship. hes been criticized for not doing that enough. this is a chance for him to pick someone who could potentially get bipartisan support for all of the reasons that ali mapped out. we do not know where these senators will fall ultimately. but clearly the president and white house looked at that very list you just laid out and that w...

Justice stephen breyer because of her experience as a public defender. because of -- because shes a different person. shes a black woman than justice stephen breyer was. so shell bring that to the table as well. theres often a narrative at confirmation hearings about justices as umpires who call the balls and strikes. but the truth is that the law will often only get you so far. the supreme court decides cases because they are hard. they come to the supreme court often because lower courts have ...