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Right there, thats the motel where doctor king was staying. The one up there by my finger mark. Right and my dad in patterson went down the next day bring money for the children who had been jailed during the marches. And they went to the site and also stated that motel so. Where it had beenbombed. Martin luther king, a ie friend of the family . What they did, as a family, is we started doing jazz concerts and our first concert was also to raise money, it was in june and then we went up, at the ...

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>> so, laura, tell us the c significance of this for the court because it wont change the balance, but of course, it will change the chemistry of the court. so what should we be looking for? >> well, it will change everything if in fact president biden makes good on his promise that he made on the campaign trial and beyond to put in place a black woman on the supreme court. the idea that he has frankly a wide number of choices of qualified black women with extraordinary experience in the legal f...

And cnn chief legal correspondent, dana bash. also joining the conversation, eric. great to have all of you. laura, has paula laid out, its an embarrassment of riches in terms of who president biden can pick given he wants to pick a black woman. are there any here from what you know that would be more problematic? that have any sort of flags that would make it harder for them to make it through a confirmation process? >> i know of none, but doesnt mean that some wont be tried to impute. and have...

Theres a longer list including mimi wright, second circuit court of appeals judge lee and interestingly michelle childs, a south carolina judge pushed by house majority chip james clyburn. in the 2020 campaign clyburn gave biden what was at the time a much-needed endorsement after he vowed to nominate a black woman. here the pred has a lot of options. time is of the essence soap the fact that judge brown jackson has been vetted, that very much weighs in her favor. they cant afford any delays as ...

Views about the circumstances, the defendants or anything else. >> a close second choice is california supreme court justice, leondra krueger. a former acting deputy solicitor general in the obama administration, she argued a dozen cases before the high court. while she has not been vetted by the administration, she once clerked for john paul stevens. >> i think we tend to forget when were in the outside world that really, conversations about these very difficult cases are confined to a very sma...

Recommended, may be a perfectly nice person, we dont know. but she first became a judge in august of 2021. that was less than six months ago. candace jackson has even less experience. she reached the bench for the first time in july of last year. the other nominees on list have more traditional experience. we will give you three guesses to how they got there? mimi wright became an associate justice on the minnesota supreme court back in 2012. now, the sad thing of what im about to tell you is to...