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0 first of two long and intense days of questioning from members of the senate judiciary committee began this morning with democrats using their questions to allow jackson to issue a rebuttal to republican accusations that she has been soft on crime and republicans pressing her on her record as a judge and public defender and bringing up a whole host of conservative hobby horses. things like critical race theory. jackson has tried to stay above the fray in her responses. early on in the hearing, she told democratic senator, dick durbin, quote, i tried to stay in my lane. along with me are clai...

The supreme court, like, once or twice over that same period of time so it was like, you know, it's a much different set of uses of what the supreme court's doing and i think the supreme court's heard the criticism. i think that's why they're hearing oral argument on this as opposed to the rent moratorium case you mentioned a moment ago in which the supreme court just decided that on its shadow docket. >> neal, i won't tell anybody where you are, but you did put on twitter a picture of that ski slope and i won't say what state it's in. i think i know. please go out there and do a double black ...

Emergency applications to the court and they sometimes matter a lot. the texas abortion cases are one example of something on the shadow docket. can you just give us -- there's been a lot of criticism, and some of it, i think, people are -- when you hear shadow docket, it sounds pretty sinister. i ask you, is it sinister, and do you think there's legitimate criticisms of how the shadow docket works and particularly in the cases that we've seen, including these? >> yeah, so, the shadow docket is this kind of emergency, rush to the supreme court after a lower court makes a certain decision, and ...

Public safety and if you can ban muslims in the name of public safety, i kind of think you should be able to have some vaccine policies as well. and i think this court is going to face a real dilemma in thinking about the material consequences of its actions if it tries to strike this down. i mean, you don't need to be a scientist to know that higher vaccination rates are good for everyone. i mean, heck, even donald trump thinks that vaccines are saving lives. that's what he said yesterday. and he's about as far as you can get from a scientist. so, i think it's a really hard thing for the cour...

Some of it, i think, people are -- when you hear shadow docket, it sounds pretty sinister. i ask you, is it sinister, and do you think there's legitimate criticisms of how the shadow docket works and particularly in the cases that we've seen, including these? >> yeah, so, the shadow docket is this kind of emergency, rush to the supreme court after a lower court makes a certain decision, and what the critics are saying is, the supreme court's hearing these -- not even hearing these cases. they're just making decisions based on, you know, a quick filing based on the parties' submissions, and i a...