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Feb 2022
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Special: Justice Jackson

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Stanford Law professor Nathaniel Persily joins David and Emily to discuss President Biden’s nomination for associate justice of the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.

Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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