Supreme Court nominee.
Can't Angie Brett Jackson Browne.
Jackson's historic confirmation
hearing ended Thursday with
testimony from some outside experts.
Jackson spent 22 hours this week
answering lawmakers questions.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set
to vote on her nomination on April 4th.
I will move to have her nomination
come to the floor in short order.
The Senate is on track to have Judge
Jackson confirmed as Justice Jackson
by the end of this work period.
Gather over to the full Senate
has not been scheduled yet.
If all the Democrats hang
together to confirm Jackson,
then she will win the nomination
without any Republican support.
It is not clear if any Republicans
will vote to confirm her some,
like Mitt Romney have indicated
they might vote for her.
But Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell said on the floor
that he will not vote for her.
Corey is joined now by our political
experts James Mejia and Kelly Mohar
to dig deeper into the hearings.
Hey guys,
so live in the flesh.
Thanks for coming in.
It's so great to see you guys.
A lot to go through.
OK, so first, Kelly,
we're going to start with you.
Of course,
Republicans caught a lot of
heat for their line of questioning,
some saying that their questions
had nothing to do with the hearings.
What's your analysis of it?
You know? I mean, ultimately, we saw.
I think Republicans feeling
very frustrated on the heels of
the Kavanaugh and the Gorsuch.
And the Amy Coney Barrett hearings
and really feeling like they
needed to assert themselves.
Kind of and clap back if you will.
On the way that that went,
and I think that we really are
seeing now that this is just
a highly politicized process.
And those questions some of them were tough.
Some of them were more valid than others.
But you know, ultimately,
I think the entire process
needs some kind of reform.
What's your response, James?
Well, I agree
this is. This is definitely
a political theater.
Judge Jackson is going to be confirmed.
There are going to be no democratic
defections from the towing the party line.
The more interesting questions will be,
will any Republicans actually cross
party lines and vote to confirm,
you know, I think back to Michael
Bennett introducing Gorsuch and
what a bipartisan step that was and
how long ago that seems and and
how unacceptable that might seem
in today's political environment.
Right, I mean you kind of touched
on it there, but you know,
James will start with you.
How do you think the parties
are going to react to this vote?
Oh I, I think mostly a party line.
I don't think you'll see
any Democratic defections.
We're not hearing of any leaks.
And with regard to to that vote.
But but again, the more interesting
point will be how many Republicans,
if any, will actually vote to confirm.
Do you think any Republicans
you know unclear? Yeah,
but, but ultimately I think that this
entire process has just been really,
really frustrating over the
last several nominations.
And back to James's point,
you know Bennett got.
A lot of heat for that for what was seen
as a defection from the party line,
and he got it internally,
and so you know,
you see a lot of people on both
parties trying to really clamp
down on their people. Yeah,
22 hours of testimony this week,
so I know that you talked
about reform to all of this.
What's your biggest take away
from the hearings? This week
is just that people who are
really frustrated, right?
Like it's basically a foregone
conclusion that she is going to.
To get the nod and that she
will be on the Supreme Court.
So ultimately I think that it
just underlies so much frustration
that people have with the
entire political process and the
politicization of all of it.
Yeah, what's your take away?
Well, I want
to make sure we don't lose
sight of the larger issue.
This is a historic moment.
This is an eminently qualified candidate.
Nominee of four for this seat.
She will be confirmed and she'll
make history as the first African
American woman to to serve
on on on the Supreme Court.
You know, in this capacity,
so it's so very exciting at at at
this point in history and wonderful
that a majority of the Senate can at
least be on the right side of history.
It is historic for sure.
I know that you guys are gonna
be sticking around you gonna be
joining us over on channel 2497 AM
to dive a little bit more into this.
So we'll chat with you more coming up.