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That with hard work, determination, and love, it can be done. >> that was one of the singular moments in the historic confirmation hearing of judge ketanji brown jackson. certainly the many working women who heard that and felt that will not forget it. and there were others, cory booker's poignant speech but asked us to remember what was important about this week. and what was not. but if there was one image that did just that, captured what's mattered about this week, it was this one, by sarah beth maney of the new york times. the papers caption reads in part, judge jackson's daughter, leyla,...

Supreme efficiency. i'm thinking of judge jackson's opening remarks, where she acknowledges that she's not always done it right in terms of balancing career and parenting, and how meaningful that was four other women who were watching. i gotta ask you, why do we, as sisters, fellow mothers, as women, hold up the bar that high that you can't talk about how difficult it is. >> because we don't want anyone to know how difficult it is. we want to pretend like we have it under control. when people say, i got this, they say it as if it has an exclamation point at the end of the sentence, and really,...

It's not yet clear she will get it. in june, three republican senators, lindsey graham, susan collins and lisa murkowski voted to confirm her to the d.c. court of appeals. nothing about her qualifications as changed in the time since then. as republican senators on the judiciary committee yelled at judge jackson, accused her of lying and cater to qanon conspiracy theories, judge jackson kept her composure, unlike another supreme court nominee, kavanaugh, who faced sexual misconduct charges, yelled and got visibly angry and confronted during his confirmation hearings. judge jackson was battered...

In previous hearings when he voted for elena kagan, he said his job was in part to protect the judiciary and to ensure that hard-fought elections had meaning in our system. i invite people to go back, when he voted for justice sotomayor, he said elections have consequences. he showed respect for the system and respect for the nominee. unfortunately, there was not enough respect in that room this week. >> maya, i had thought for a moment that because judge jackson's confirmation would not change the ideological balance of the court, and because the republican party is so damaged by racist rheto...

That any child should be made to feel as though they are racist. >> lawyer and fellow -- wrote in the nation about what he saw there in judge jackson's response. jackson started to answer. she said senator, and then she side. and then she paused. for a long time. as the silence filled the room, i felt like i could see jackson make the same calculation nearly every black person and ancestor has made at some point. it's the calculation when black people try to decide, am i going to risk it all for this? jackson took a moment to decide if it was worth it to throw everything away -- her chance, he...