Pass judgement on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Ultimate Court docket nomination hearings wrapped up on Thursday and all indications level to Jackson being showed, in large part alongside partisan strains. She will be the first Black girl and primary public defender to serve at the Court docket. Since Jackson’s affirmation is the anticipated result, the hearings – very similar to previous ones – have been extra about politics. On this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux talk about the messages that Senators despatched and whether or not we have been ready to glean the rest about what sort of Justice Jackson can be.
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