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Increasingly ses filled with an mosty. justices thomas, gorsuch, kavanaugh, barrett, and alito are in charge and will be effectively running the court for years to come. jackson will probably enjoy pleasantly collegial relationships with some or all of them. if she is a smart and skilled jurist as she seemed during confirmation hearings, she might occasionally persuade one or more of them to agree with her analysis on an issue. realistically, she must know until the court's roster changes, on most hot-button cases, she will be limited to deciding how passionate her dissenting opinion should be...

Does officially get seated, just remind us what cases is she going to be hearing come the start of the next term? >> so the supreme court has already decided to take some big hot-button cases, and one of her first decisions will be to recuse from one of the most important cases that will be argued in the coming term, and that's the challenge to the use of affirmative action in college emissions. the case comes from harvard. she is a graduate from harvard and so are many others on the court, and that's not the issue, but the issue is she's on a policy board at harvard and that puts her in a pos...

But really, underneath all of these questions are the pretext for this is about race. >> i'm shocked that you don't want the know-how someone did at a logic game when they were 22. melissa, let's sort of look past this week, right? let's look past all of this. she is likely going to be confirmed. how is she likely to reshape the court? >> well, in the short-term, i think there is not going to be a lot that she can do in terms of shaping the trajectory of the court which has a very solid 6-3 conservative super majority. so a lot of the work she will be doing, especially in the hot button cases ...

Differently? they're going to try to pin her down on a variety of hot button cases, gun rights, abortion rights, one senator brought up the 1965 contraception and privacy case. do not expect her to reveal much on this. the trend over the last several decade is that judicial nominees say as little about these cases, simply say they will consider the facts when it comes before them, that it would be inappropriate to prejudge potential cases. then there are political questions that she's going to keep and i would keep my eyes on a trio of republican senators who are known to have presidential amb...

The senate stick together, there's nothing republicans do. that said, the white house and democrats want bipartisan support. it is plausible some of the more moderate republicans are not expecting to go scorched earth on this nomination. they have not been able to paint her outside the mainstream, but there are some conservative members on the judiciary committee who are known to have higher presidential ambitions, and expect them to try to score political points in this hearing to try to pick at elements of judge jackson's record and question her about them. she is likely to face questions ab...