🎶🎤 “Sorry Ms. Jackson (You Are For Real)” 🎼🎵

Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week your hosts shine a deserved spotlight on the latest appointee to the Supreme Court, one Ketanji Brown Jackson. But first, we set the table with a rant or three, as Ed details the pending fate of Lizelle Herrera, charged with murder in the wake of Texas’ on-going legislative anti-abortion crusade; Andrew decries some of the coverage surrounding NFL QB Dwayne Haskins’ tragic and untimely passing, and Zak censures the right wing characterization of the Disney Company as supporters of so-called child “grooming” in response to the media behemoth’s opposition to Florida’s newly instituted anti-LGBTQ laws. This provides something of an unfortunate transition to this week’s main subject, newly appointed Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson. Much of the rhetoric from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s GOP contingent focused on Brown-Jackson having a perceived “softness” on crimes involving pedophilia, a case most mainstream news outlets as well as your hosts disapprovingly fact checked. The newest justice’s background and bonafides are also detailed, as well as the abhorrently partisan nature of her confirmation hearings, a vote that saw three(!) GOP senators vote to confirm Brown-Jackson to the bench, and how/if her appointment may shift the ideological makeup of the court in the years to come. A historic week for the Supreme Court, a seismic achievement for black women in our government, and more calamity brought to you courtesy of the Republican Party, all laid out in both great and grave detail this week on the Bill Bradley Collective.