>>> ON MONDAY HISTORY WILL BE
MADE WHEN CONFIRMATION HEARINGS
BEGIN FOR KETANJI BROWN JACKSON,
THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN EVER
NOMINATED TO THE SUPREME COURT.
IT'S GOING TO BE HARD FOR THE
COMMITTEE'S REPUBLICANS, ALL BUT
ONE OF WHOM ARE WHITE MEN TO
COME AFTER A WOMAN WITH NOT ONE,
BUT TWO HARVARD DEGREES WITH
HONESTLY NORS
HONORS WHO CLERKED FOR JUSTICE
STEPHEN BREYER AND WHO ALREADY
SERVED ON THE FEDERAL BENCH FOR
YEARS.
EVEN TUCKER CARLSON RECENTLY
SAID THERE WAS NO QUESTION SHE
WAS QUALIFIED FOR THE JOB.
HOWEVER, THIS WAS RIGHT BEFORE
HE WAS BEING BLATANTLY STUPID,
SEXIST AND RACIST.
>> SO IT MIGHT BE TIME FOR JOE
BIDEN TO LET US KNOW WHAT
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON'S LSAT
SCORE WAS.
WHY WOULDN'T YOU TELL US THAT?
THAT WOULD SETTLE THE QUESTION
CONCLUSIVELY AS TO WHETHER SHE'S
A ONCE IN A GENERATION LEGAL
TALENT.
IT WOULD SEEM LIKE AMERICANS IN
A DEMOCRACY HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW
THAT AND MUCH MORE BEFORE GIVING
HER A LIFETIME APPOINTMENT, BUT
HE DIDN'T HEAR THAT.
>> JOINING ME NOW IS JUSTICE
CORRESPONDENT FOR THE NATION AND
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YOU ARE NUMBER TWO ON THE "NEW
YORK TIMES," MY FRIEND.
YOU KNOW BILL BARR IS NUMBER ONE
SO I HAVE A PERSONAL INTEREST IN
SEEING YOU KNOCK THAT GUY OFF
THE TOP.
I'M CURIOUS, WHAT DO YOU
ANTICIPATE TO COME OUT OF THESE
HEARINGS?
YOU KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO BE
VYING FOR A VIRAL MOMENT ON THE
REPUBLICAN SIDE.
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE
BIGGEST CHALLENGE TO JUDGE
JACKSON'S CONFIRMATION?
>> THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE IS HER
NOT GETTING UP OUT OF HER CHAIR
AND PUNCHING ONE OF THESE FOOLS
IN THE MOUTH.
ALL THEY HAVE FOR HER RIGHT NOW
IS RACISM AND DISGUSTING
INNUENDO.
THEY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ON HER
RECORD.
SHE'S BEEN ON THE FEDERAL BENCH
FOR NINE YEARS.
SHE'S ISSUED HUNDREDS OF CASES
AND YOU DO NOT HEAR SUBSTANTIVE
LEGAL ARGUMENTS ABOUT HER
DECISION MAKING PROCESS.
ALL THEY HAVE IS THE RACISM
ABOUT THE LSAT SCORES.
SOME ARE GOING TO CALL HER AN
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION NOMINEE.
SOME ARE GOING TO ASK HER WHY
SHE'S NOT SAD THAT WHITE PEOPLE
WEREN'T CONSIDERED.
THEN YOU HAVE THE JOSH HAWLEY
RIDICULOUSNESS.
THE CHALLENGE IS JUST IF SHE
KEEPS HER COOL, WHICH I'M SURE
SHE WILL DO.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A HIGH
SCHOOL DEBATE CHAMPION.
SHE SHOULD DO FINE BECAUSE SHE'S
SO EMINENTLY QUALIFIED AND
IMPECCABLY CREDENTIALED THAT
THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING
ON HER.
>> YOU KNOW, YOU BROUGHT UP JOSH
HAWLEY, WHO ACCORDING TO THE
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, HE'S
GOING TO FOCUS ON HER PATTERN OF
LETTING CHILD PORN OFFENDERS OFF
THE HOOK FOR THEIR CRIMES.
I MEAN, THIS IS A GUY WHO SERVES
IN THE SAME PARTY AS JIM JORDON
AND MATT GAETZ.
SHOULD WE START THIS LIST OF
THINGS?
IT'S RIDICULOUS.
POLITICO IS REPORTING THAT
BASICALLY THESE GUYS HAVE
NOTHING.
THE REPUBLICANS ON THE SENATE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HAVE NOTHING, SO THEIR TACTIC IS
NOTHING, SO THEIR TACTIC IS
GOING TO BE ERASURE.
>> THE THING WOULD BE TO HAVE A
NORMAL, ABOVE BOARD HEARING, LET
HER BE CONFIRMED.
SHE DOESN'T CHANGE THE BALANCE
OF POWER OF THE COURT ANYWAY.
AND GO BACK TO CRYING ABOUT GAS
PRICES OR TALKING ABOUT HUNTER
BIDEN'S LAPTOP OR WHATEVER THING
COUNTS AS A REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
THESE DAYS.
THEM GOING TO THE MATTRESSES
AGAINST HER IS KIND OF A WASTE
OF THEIR TIME.
I DON'T WANT TO LET THE JOSH
HAWLEY THING LIE.
HERE'S WHERE I NEED THE
DEMOCRATS TO STEP UP.
BECAUSE WHEN THEY TRY TO SMEAR
HER, I NEED THE DEMOCRATS TO GET
UP THERE AND DEFEND HER JUST AS
VOCIFEROUSLY AS LINDSEY GRAHAM
DEFENDED ALLEGED ATTEMPTED
RAPIST BRETT KAVANAUGH.
I NEED THAT LEVEL OF ENERGY FROM
THE DEMOCRATS, ESPECIALLY WHEN
THEY COME AT HER WITH THESE
TRUMPED UP ALLEGED ISSUES ON HER
SENTENCING FOR SEX OFFENDERS.
WHAT JOSH HAWLEY IS DOING WHEN
HE TRIES TO DO THIS IS HE'S
TRYING TO GET HER KILLED.
HE IS TRYING TO GET VIOLENCE
DONE AGAINST A SUPREME COURT
NOMINEE.
WE KNOW THIS BECAUSE WHEN THESE
PEOPLE GO OFF MAKING THEIR
RIDICULOUS CLAIMS ABOUT CHILD
PORNOGRAPHY, WE KNOW SOME OF
THEIR PEOPLE SHOW UP VIOLENTLY
TO DO STUFF, AS HAPPENED TO THE
NEW HAMPSHIRE PIZZA PARLOR.
YOU KNOW HOW I KNOW THAT JOSH
HAWLEY KNOWS WHAT PIZZA GATE IS
ALL ABOUT?
GUESS WHO'S THE JUDGE WHO
SENTENCED THE PIZZA GATE GUY?
THAT WAS KETANJI BROWN JACKSON.
SHE SENTENCED THE PIZZA GATE GUY
TO FOUR YEARS IN PRISON.
HIS LAWYER ASKED FOR 18 MONTHS.
THE PROSECUTORS ASKED FOR 4 1/2
YEARS, SO SHE WAS LENIENT TO THE
PIZZA GATE GUY.
BUT THEY'RE MAD AT HER FOR THAT.
THAT'S WHERE THIS STUFF IS
COMING FROM.
YOU NEED TO KNOW WHERE IT'S
COMING FROM AND DEMOCRATS NEED
TO KNOW HOW TO DEFEND HER FROM
THIS STUFF.
>> FIRST OF ALL, YES, YOU'RE
RIGHT.
IT'S AN IMPORTANT POINT YOU MAKE
TOO BECAUSE THE TYPES OF CASES THAT WILL BE COMING BEFORE THIS
THAT WILL BE COMING BEFORE THIS
COURT, SHE DOES NOT CHANGE THE
I'D
IDEALOGICAL BALANCE.
DONALD TRUMP APPOINTED TWO
LIFETIME APPOINTMENTS.
THERE ARE PLENTY OF CASES THAT
CAN COME BEFORE THIS COURT THAT
SHE'LL BE WEIGHING IN ON AND WE
DON'T KNOW HOW THE BALANCE WILL
HELP.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CASES SHE
COULD POTENTIALLY HEAR WHILE
SERVING ON THIS COURT?
>> BECAUSE THE BALANCE IS NOT
CHANGING, REPUBLICANS ARE GOING
FULL ON FROM THEIR IDEALOGICAL
THEOCRACY.
THAT'S THE GOAL.
THIS TERM WE'RE GOING TO SEE THE
EFFECTIVE END OF ROE V WADE ON A
WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE.
WE'RE GOING TO SEE REPUBLICANS
ALLOW GUNS TO BE ON SUBWAYS SO
WE CAN GET BACK TO THE TIMES OF
BERNARD GETS.
WE HAVE AN ENVIRONMENTAL
DEREGULATION OF THE HIGHEST.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN END OF
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION NEXT TERM.
THESE ARE THE KINDS OF CASES
SHE'S HEARING.
SHE'S GOING TO WRITE SOME AWESOME DISSENTS.
AWESOME DISSENTS.
SHE AND SOTOMAYOR AND KAGAN ARE
GOING TO WRITE SOME AWESOME
DISSENTS.
IN THE SHORT-TERM IT DOESN'T
MEAN A LOT.
YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THE POINT
OF A GOOD DISSENT.
IT IS TO SET UP A LAW OF THE
FUTURE.
SHE'S GOING TO BE ON THE COURT
FOR NOT TWO OR THREE YEARS,
HOPEFULLY 30 YEARS.
>> BLACK WOMEN ARE
UNDERREPRESENTED ON THE SUPREME
COURT.
IN COURTS EVERYWHERE WHEN BIDEN
FIRST TOOK OFFICE ONLY FIVE OF
THE NEARLY 300 SITTING APPELLATE
JUDGES WERE BLACK WOMEN.