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Back with me, fatima, president and ceo of the national women s law center, and kimberly atkins, columnist for for the boston globe and analyst. fatima, you said friday on msnbc, you said judge ketanji brown jackson won t be on the supreme court to hear the mississippi abortion ban case. the fact that there s no black woman on the court to hear that case is a mistake and a reminder that it s long overdue to have someone in that role. tell me more about that. you know, roe versus wade isn t some just academic idea. it really is determining the health and wellbeing of women in different parts of this country. and in mississippi in particular, the maternal mortality rate for black women is particularly high. the abortion bans in places like ....
I think they felt, what i read from the letter is they felt like there was sufficient evidence to move forward and waiting for new evidence was speculative and would further delay things, and justice required them to move quickly. i don t know that they would dispute that there were other new avenues. they didn t think those avenues would be fruitful. but alvin bragg does and it s very hard for us to know, because we re not on the inside. and i have no idea. i don t know who s right or who s wrong, but you know, i do think that we all have to give a new district attorney a little bit of the benefit of the doubt. cy vance had this case for three years, and he didn t charge it before he left. it s a lot to ask of a new district attorney to come in and decide to charge the former president of the united states within a month of him ascending to the position. all right, we ll keep watching. thanks for your help. dan goldman, understanding it all. when we come back, judge ....
Out. i think what he has decided to do here is that the public interest in understanding what s going on is greater than the interest of hits investigation to keep everything confidential. he didn t reveal anything substantive, but he, i think, very importantly, sent the message that the investigation is indeed ongoing, and it is indeed looking at new evidence in an effort to shore up what you and i have spoken about, nicole, is a very difficult criminal case. but it s very hard to accept that this is as robust as whatever the other two prosecutors were doing, because they left. i mean, it does not seem to smell right. well, it s hard to know if you re not in there. there s some aspect they walked out because great new evidence came that they didn t want to be a part of and add it to their case? come on. no. ....
Possible. that s right. in my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the supreme court. and it is an honor. the honor of a lifetime. for me to have this chance to join the court, to promote the rule of law at the highest level, and to do my part to carry our shared project of democracy and equal justice under law forward into the future. that s where we begin the hour with three people who were in the room where it happened, or in this case in the rose garden where it happened, fatima goss graves is here, the president and ceo of the national women s law center, also barbara lee of california, and with us onset, the reverend ....
You about the really zealousness with which republicans at the state level are working to overturn roe vs. wade and we re going to cover that at a policy level later in the show, but i wonder your thoughts, and again, tragically, her confirmation does nothing to alter the ideological make-up of the court, but i wonder what you think her presence means for some of those just incredibly difficult american sort of cultural and divisive moments before this court and its next term. i actually think it really matters that she won t be on the court to hear the mississippi abortion ban case. the fact that there s no black woman on the court to hear that case is a mistake and is a reminder that it is long overdue to have someone in role. but i also know that judge jackson, in her statement today, she talked about the arc of ....