After 18 hours of grueling testimony, Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson appeared headed for narrow confirmation, but the week put on vivid display the degraded state of the confirmation process. Sen Al Franken, Aaron Blake, and Alexi McCammond join Harry to take apart the hearings and segue to states’ passage of voting rights restrictions and severe anti-abortion laws even before the Court’s expected abortion ruling. They end with analysis of the main stress points shaping up for the midterms.

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