for harvard students.ver throughout this period of well into the 19th century, the university and its donors benefited from extensive financial ties to slavery." in school newspaper dedicated its front page, listing the names of individuals enslaved by leadership, faculty, staff, donors at harvard university between 1636 and 1783. they wrote -- the editor's note "for these people, we often know only their nicknames. for a few, we know only their race and gender stop this is the result of the systemic erasure that to this day continues to deny enslaved people their histories." we begin today looking more at the new report "harvard & the legacy of slavery" about how ensled peoplare usedo serv hvard stunts and facult >> the edence of the legcy of avery in the landsca. yocan go ttheld burl groundnd see t headstones. one, airl, was enslaved to a treasurer and fellow at harvard university. we also knoweveral o harvard's priden whoived in a building stl standing on campus today, owned enslaved people of african o

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the day graduated from harvard harvard graduate knows how impossible it is to get tickets. she was.he encouraged me to apply to harvard most improbable and we had no money and no one can imagine paying for it. being it was presumptuous to think that my grades were such. she strongly urged me too do it and i did it and i think in her recommendation and she is probably that figure and inspiration very important was the source of protection. >> let's go back to the books for a while get the book in 82, 80.86 alaska was harvard. >> the autobiography is called unlimited partners. >> that was on the verge and the eve of the 88. he was nominated and 96 and he said in retrospect he should not ever run. >> you wrote with their names on and you credit them. >> exactly. it was an interesting experiment. i'm not sure what i would be eager to do it again. above all you authenticity and so many campaign books that are utterly predictable. i knew these two people quite well in many ways more interesting for the public personas and above all distinct. i was out of the power couple in washington i s

the last one was harvard and what was the next one after the harvard? >> the dole autobiography, called "unlimited partners." >> that was before the ada? >> that was on the eve of the ada, which he always said, by the way, he later on said '88 was his year, and nominated in '96 against bill clinton. he said in retrospect he shouldn't have run. >> you wrote with their names on it, credit it with? >> with, exactly. it was interesting. i'm not sure i'd be eager to do it again. there were two -- first of all, above all, you want authenticity. so many washington books and so many campaign books are arguably predictable. i knew these two people quite well i thought. they were interesting in many ways more interesting than their public personas but above all distinct. i know they were thought of at the time as the power couple in washington but i saw them as two distinct individuals very different in many ways learned from and complimented and filled out, if you will that's where the package came from, but that went two very distinct voices. wasn't my voice. i

four girls got together in 1988 at harvard college, and went on to harvard law school together, and they have a story to tell that has now become a part of history. can tony brown jackson's college roommates will join us for early in the hour. here is what's the transition and ukraine looked like before it was attacked. thousands of people were at the train station, there it was before it was attacked. the images you are about to see now are painfully graphic, at least 50 people were killed, including five children, and nearly 100 people were wounded. the washington post reports both witnesses said that an initial explosion was followed by 45 blasts that they believed were caused by cluster bombs. there were people everywhere, torn off limbs, flesh, bone, pieces of people everywhere. the washington post journalist found a large piece of the missile when they arrived and report that the russian words for for the children we're spray-painted on the missile. here is sky news correspondent john sparks at the scene today. >> explosives from that missile have dropped here. just remember, there

from harvard law school where she edited the harvard law review. after graduation judge jackson worked at top firms in private practice and secured three prestigious court ships including one for justice breyer on the supreme court. later as a public defender to represent people who could not afford a lawyer. i cannot think of better evidence of her commitment to equal justice under the law where everyone regardless of entheir means has a right to fair representation. judge jackson is clearly qualified for this position nobody doubts that my colleagues know that because the senate has confirmed her three times with bipartisan support first to serve as vice chair and second to the us district court for the district of columbia for the dc circuit. judge jackson comes to this floor with the best legal training where can can offer a decade of experience on the federal bench and a consistent record of bipartisan support here on this floor and that's one way to say the confirmation hearings and then to be through all of that and working with public schoo

among the findings in the report conducted by harvard faculty, harvard presidents, faculty, and staffnslaved more than 70 people in the 17th and 18th centuries, some of whom labored on campus. harvard benefited from donations from plantation owners and other trade involving slave labor. it also details how harvard's longest-serving president, charles william elliott, and other prominent faculty promoted eugenics, the racist idea that selective breeding is needed to purify the human race. in response to these and other findings, the university has pledged $100 million to create an endowed legacy of slavery fund. for more, i am joined by the dean of the harvard radcliffe institute for advanced study, and she chaired the committee report. there are many specifics in this report, but what is key for you? is it how integral slavery was to the history of harvard? >> i would say so. we documented direct ownership and enslavement of human beings. we documented financial ties to the slave trade and slave economies. finally, the intellectual production of ideologies that supported slavery, segr

she graduated from harvard magna cum laude, she graduated with honors from harvard law school, where she edited the "harvard law review." after graduation, judge jackson worked at top firms in private practice and secured three prestigious clerkships, including one for justice breyer on the supreme court of the united states. later, she served as a public defender, representing people who couldn't afford a lawyer. i can't think of better evidence of her commitment to equal justice under the law, where everyone, regardless of their means, has the right to fair representation. judge jackson is clearly qualified for this position. there's nobody who doubts that. my colleagues know it because the senate has confirmed her three times, with bipartisan support, first to serve as vice chair of the u.s. sentencing commission, second for the u.s. district court for the district of columbia, and last for the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. taken together, judge jackson comes to this floor with the best legal training america can offer. a decade of experience on the federal bench, an

watson a third year law student at harvard law school and president of the harvard black law students association, thank you for your tomb and for sharing your experiences with us tonight. >> thank you. >>> well, before we go to break, i want to draw your attention to something else that happened earlier today. shortly before announcing judge ketanji brown jackson's historic confirmation vote, vice president harris did something ha was rather unexpected. take a look at this. you can see on the left-hand side of your screen, she pulled out a few pieces of paper, and it turns out that was vice presidential stationery, and she proceeded to head over to the only two black democrats in the senate, senators cory booker and rafael warnock, apparently the vice president told them she had an assignment, she wanted each of them to write a letter to a young black woman in their life, as a way of commemorating this day in history. senator warnock has shared the letter that he wrote. it is addressed to his daughter chloe and it read, today we confirmed ketanji brown jackson, to the united states s

he's also a former fellow at harvard university at the kennedy school institute of politics.ort and what it means for an institution like harvard to go back and take an unsympathetic look at their own role in the wrongs this country perpetuated. >> in some ways, it's astonishing that an institution of this caliber would acknowledge its entanglement with slave f slavery. but that they're great wealth. they have an endowment of $53 billion all tied into the slave labor, the purchasing and selling of human beings. at this point in time, this institution is well-renown would step up and say, this is who we've been and in some ways trying to make amends. now $153 million is yet to be seen what they'll actually do with it, but this is a star and i would say perhaps a proof of concept for an institution grappling with their history. >> what do you make of harvard doing this and desantis in florida taking away math books saying you can't teach race in school, you can't make people feel bad about themselves? >> i think there are people on the other side of truth and justice who are mo

they've been calling for harvard to take some action.or many of the students i've been talking with this is a big step forward in acknowledging the real history and the real pain that this institution has caused. >> trymaine lee, thank you very much. >>> the pennsylvania republican senate primary three weeks away, three weeks until voting day, and things are getting really intense. nearly half of voters don't know who they're going to vote for. the two front runners, donald trump endorsed celebrity dr. me mehmet oz and david mccormack, last night saw them shoulder to shoulder going after each other. >> the reason mehmet keeps talking about president trump's endorsement is because he can't run on his own position. >> dishonest dave is at it again. he went groveling to president trump with these types of allegations. president trump saw right through them, did not endorse him. >> joining us now is nbc news correspondent dasha burns in lieu luzerne county, pennsylvania. >> reporter: this might be the most hotly watched race of the midterms.

>> this was 1981. >> and when did i graduate from harvard? >> 1975. >> and when did you write your thesis? >> well -- >> '75? >> yeah. >> so there was a six year gap there. >> yeah. i worked, well, gosh, i worked as a freelance writer, i mean this -- you know, you hone your craft, right. very competitive, and you could imagine, in boston i mean i remember applying for, i think, it was a real estate publisher or something. god knows. i mean i needed a job. and i don't know why they hired me but they did and, you know, but again, it was practice, and i worked as a church secretary, lutheran church outside harvard yard i remember doing that in '75 because franco was dying, the daily bulletins and then 1976, taking a year off i was prepared to go back to school. which is the closest thing to a concession of failure but i was accepted at three schools, at harvard divinity school which made no sense, at cornell which made great sense and university of texas which made no sense. but applying what i called the katherine hepburn school of thought. you

especially given harvard more than $50 million endowment. >> i think harvard was late to the game withs report. >> for me as a student of color, i wish this had happened a lot sooner. >> reporter: the report avoids any mention of direct financial reparations, a controversial practice. other schools including georgetown and the university of virginia have also pledged to make amends for their ties to slavery with projects and even scholarships to benefit descendants of enslaved people. >> for the university to acknowledge its past and reflect on it rather than push it under the covers. >> reporter: when asked about direct reparations, they said they had no immediate plans for that kind of program. >>> coming up, a bright idea. another change when it comes to the light bulbs we use. >>> first, the history being >>> first, the history being ma ♪♪ here's to the very first influencer in your life... mom! ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ this is how mom shines. find the perfect mother's day gift... ...at zales. the diamond store. discomfort back there? instead of using aloe, ...at zales. or baby wipes, or powder

watson is a third year law student at harvard law school and a graduate of the harvard black law students grateful for your time and your sharing of your experiences with us tonight. >> thank you. >> before we go to break, i want to draw your attention to something else that happened earlier today. shortly before announcing ketanji brown jackson's historic confirmation vote, vice president harris said did something that was rather unexpected. you can see on the left-hand side of your screen. she pulled out some paper. it turns out that that was vice presidential stationary. she proceeded to hand it over to the only two black democrats in the senate. senators cory booker and raphael warnock. apparently, the vice president told them she hadn't assignment. she wanted each of them to write a letter to a young black woman in their life as a way of commemorating the state in history. senator raphael warnock has shared the letter that he wrote. it is addressed to his daughter chloe and it reads. today, we confirmed ketanji brown-jackson to the united states supreme court. in our nation's history

mellody: my mom wanted me to go to harvard.y mom told me harvard was like coca-cola, that anywhere in the world i would go, including an african village, if i said harvard, people would know what i was talking about. and princeton was like sprite. she said, we only know it in america. at the end of the day after visiting both, a princeton alum named richard called me every day after i got into princeton and told me why princeton was a better school for me. and he ultimately invited me to a lunch with bill bradley. and between the two of them and john rogers, the founder of ariel, i was triple-teamed. and ultimately i said, any school where people will be this fanatical about the school and having someone go there must be a really great place. so, against my mother's wishes, i chose princeton. david: and you never regretted it, right? mellody: i loved princeton. princetonians are hard-core, we bleed orange and black. david: so you graduated in what year? mellody: 1991. david: and then you decided to go back to chicago. i would a

and when did you graduate from harvard 1975? and when did you write your thesis? well 75 harvard. yeah. yeah, and so there was a six-year gap there. yeah, i worked well gosh, okay. i worked as a freelance writer. i mean, that's where you know you hold your graft, right? a very competitive you can imagine in boston. i mean i i remember applying for those. i think there a real estate. publisher or something? god knows i mean i needed i need a job. and i don't know why they hired me, but they did and i you know, but i mean again it was was practice and i worked as a church secretary. are lutheran church just outside harvard yard? i remember doing that 1975 because general franco was dying. we're getting daily bulletins. and then in 1976. having taken a year off. i was prepared. to go back to school is kind of a which is the closest thing to a a concession of failure, but i applied i was accepted at three schools. i was accepted harvard divinity school. which made no sense. i was accepted it cornell, which made? great sense and i was accepted the university of texas. which made no sen

. >> coming up, harvard's public pledge to right an injustice. see evidence that the university built some of its wealth on slavery. what's in this new report and how harvard is vowing to fix its past wrongdoings? >> certainly one of the most prestigious universities in the world that they say that slavery played in trickle role in shaping the school. in fact, a new report out today from harvard university shows that the campus had ties to the enslavement of dozens of black and indigenous people. and now the university is a committee and a lot of money to address that reporter nicole berlie explains. >> the report highlights slavery in new england and at the university, its state harvard president school leaders and staff in slaved more than 70 people. some forced to work on campus. the report suggests slavery was a major source of the institutions, growth and wealth over 150 years beginning with the university's founding in 16. 36 and that the university also tried to suppress anti slavery and anti racist movements on campus. the report was rese

in such a way that the president of harvard now calls it, quote, shocking.ind this effort to come clean and a lot of it. harvard created an endowed fund with $100 million to further study and expose its past. the report here also outlines a number of recommendations including expanding partnerships with historically black colleges and universities, some of which, unlike harvard, have been historically underfunded. harvard now joins a growing list of schools addressing their past ties to slavery, including georgetown and brown. it's interesting to see how each school handles this a little differently, but harvard being very frank about what happened. >> they have a lot of money first of all, but they are putting a lot of money behind this. these were big ties, too, when you are' talking about some of the buildings named here and some of the investments that they had there. >> and how it still benefits even today. >> great to have you. thanks so much. >>> vice president kamala harris testing positive for coronavirus. so what's now being done at the white house

jd from harvard and clerkship with supreme court justice marshall. the clinton white house and finally authorship and georgetown university. cheryl cassian, you are only the second african-american to clerk for justice marshall, correct? >> no, i was the second black woman to clerk for justice marshall. he had a number a of black male clerks but i was his second black female clerk after his goddaughter. >> what does that experience mean to you? >> until i got married and had children, it was the best year of my life bar none. marshall was an icon but also a wonderful human being. was the best storyteller he would share the most you would be on the edge of your seat listening to him tell stories from barely getting out of sleepy southern towns within with his life evading an attempted lynching to meeting with prince hanging out with prince philip when they were drafting the canyon constitution when he was doing that to hanging out with langston hughes his fraternity brother and my grandfather's fraternity brother alpha phi alpha at lincoln university.

i think a mid-rated at harvard is now like three or four percent. nobody is entitled to these places and what counts as merit is is you know, they're trying to get a diverse class where they have people from all kinds of backgrounds and no one person because can say i i'm entitled to that spot nor can you really say realistically in a system where there's a very modest in reference to race as a plus factor in order to achieve a real racial diversity. you can't honestly say this person was excluded because that person was included. so i agree with you our analysis of the concurrence in powell, but i disagree with your analysis of the facts of what is going on in harvard. let's let's hear from cornelius and alexandria, louisiana cornelius. good afternoon to welcome to book tv. good afternoon, peter and i want to bring up to quick things first miss cash it i want to thank you for taking the questions. i haven't been african-american here from alexandria, louisiana and our lieutenant governor named billy nun. gessner has going on the civil war civil rig

she graduated from harvard magna cum laude, she graduated with honors from harvard law school, where she edited the "harvard law review." after graduation, judge jackson worked at top firms in private practice and secured three prestigious clerkships, including one for justice breyer on the supreme court of the

assistant director is the assistant director of studies in an election on history and literature at harvard university. she's taught seminars in tutorials on museums in america museums and material culture and science exploration and empire. a research and teaching focus on 19th century american literature and culture with particular interest in material. culture museum studies and the history of science and technology she received her phd in english from boston university and her undergraduate degree from harvard. she will be joined by mhs's own sarah georgie who is probably a familiar face to any many of our regulars. she is a series editor for the papers of john adams part of the adams papers editorial project based at the massachusetts historical society. she is the author of household gods. the religious lives the addams family and frequently writes about early america early american thought and culture for the smithsonian. um similar to whichberg. she also receives her phd from boston university. so without further ado, please join me and welcoming miss kochberg well, great. thank you

and her undergraduate degree from harvard. she'll be joined by mhs' sara georgeen. e who ists probably a familiar fa to manyf of our regulars. she is the series editor for the papers of the john adams, part of the a adams papers part of a editor ial project based at the massachusetts historical sort. she is the author of "household gods" and frequently writes about early american thought anu culturein for the smithsonian. similar to ms. gochberg, she also received her ph.d. from boston university. so without further ado, please join me in welcoming ms. gochberg.. >> well, great, thank you so much, gavin, for that er introduction and thank you so much to all of you for being here tonight.ee i'm so grateful to the massachusetts historical society for hosting me and i am really n looking forward to my us conversation with sara. t i also especially want to thankc gavin and olivia for organizing this event. a it's a pleasure to be here and have a chance to share my work i on the history of museums with this community and i'm gratefulg to all of you for taking the time to

harvard tonight committing $100 million to study this and to make amends. a two-year study found that faculty, staff, and leaders enslaved more than 70 black and native american leaders over 150 years. harvard say it is will use that money to strengthen relationships with historically black colleges, support education in underserved areas, and to engage with descendants of those enslaved. harvard joins brown, georgetown and other universities add addressing their history. >>> a new report documenting the rise of anti-semitic incidents in the united states. 2,700 incidents in 2021. that's a 34% increase from 2020 and an all-time high. new york state reporting 416 incidents, the highest of any state. >>> and the economy tonight and new concerns on wall street. the dow continuing its slide, falling another 809 points, that's 2.3%, ahead of a wave of earning reports expected from major tech and blue chip firms. after the bell today, google reporting a disappointing first quarter. >>> whe we come back here tonight, news this evening about a plane shot at while l

. >>> this evening, harvard committing $100 million to address its ties to slavery. the new report tonight and its findings and what the university said today about its moral responsibility moving forward. >>> your health tonight and news on aspirin. millions of americans taking aspirin for their heart health. the new guidance tonight. >>> the plane shot while landing in massachusetts. >>> also, delta flight attendants to be paid during boarding. >>> and powerball dreams tonight growing. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. and we begin tonight with vice president kamala harris testing positive for covid. the vice president was vaccinated and twice boosted. tonight, what we're learning about her condition. we do know she is asymptomatic so far. and when was the last time she had close contact with president biden? and tonight here, the eye-opening new numbers. the cdc now estimates that nearly 60% of americans have had covid-19 and that 75% of all children and adolescents have had covid. the vice president getting tested when s

harvard as she could so that might have been a tradition as well and fdr lived quite well at harvard by the way. he had his own set of rooms. he had not only a car he had a boat. i mean who has their own boat at harvard? so it was a very comfortable environment, of course. mommy was just down the road. so as we talk about their political experience. as young men there there is something else in common and that is that they both serve in the state legislature and it grooms them lincoln in the raucous state legislature of illinois as a member of the lower house, which he's instrumental in infrastructure improvements, although it bankrupts the state speaks for the first and only time about the franchise being extended to women education is a top priority and interesting legislative career, and i guess we think that the most the most prominent moment in his legislative career comes when he joins a group to move the state capital. faithfully as it turns out to springfield, illinois roosevelt is you know, he's a progressive. hudson valley legislator actually wins a long time republican sea

judge jackson's academic credentials are impressive graduating from harvard college and harvard law school with honors from both college and law school. her run paralleled professionalism in the breadth of her legal experience equals or exceeds that of any nominee in recent history. she has worked in private practice, she's worked as an assistant public defender federal public defender and a law clerk in the federal judicial branch including a law clerk to justice breyer. who retired from the corporate perhaps most importantly she has worked as a federal judge for nearly 10 years presiding over trials and later hearing appeals. during a meeting yesterday judge jackson spoke about her career transition from attorney to a federal judge and specifically highlighted a trial attorney helped her grow into becoming a federal judge. often lost in our discussion regarding federal judges are the people who are impact did directly by a legal system in our judges decisions. at its core our court system more so than any other institution is dedicated to the idea that everyone, everyone, not just the we

he had not only a car, he had a boat, who has their own boat at harvard?was a very comfortable environment. and of course mommy was just down the road. >> as we talk about their political experience as young men, there is something else in common, and that is that they both served in the state legislature, and it grooms them. lincoln, in the raucous state legislature of illinois as a member of the lower house, which he's instrumental in infrastructure improvements, although it bankrupts the state, speaks for the first and only time about the franchise being extended to women, education is a top priority. an interesting legislative career. i guess we think the most prominent moment in his legislative career comes when he joins a group to move the state capitol, fatefully, as it turns out. >> the idea of going into the state legislature was a path he laid out for himself. he was an enormous admirer, almost in awe of the man he liked to call my cousin teddy, sixth cousin once removed so it was a distant relationship, but he patterned his political track, neve

and the writer and naturalist henry david thorau donated to harvard's natural history museum even as he recognized its value to scientific research.se so the founders of museums often envisioned order, right, they pictured these collections neatly arranged in cases and cabinets, but the reality was much more disorderly process that sudden dynamic conversations within and beyond institutions.st about what we choose to preservs and value, about whose knowledge and expertise is celebrated or y erased, and about who has access to the knowledge and education represented by cultural institutions.an these questions continue to h resonate in discussions about these institutions today, and my hope is understanding the longer history of these issues can helu us think creatively about how to interpret objects that were collected during this time and also can inform how we think about making cultural institutions more nghe interdisciplinary, inclusive and community oriented spaces todayi so some of the larger issues in mind i want to come back to an early example of how museums were defining and

the court when a harvard affirmative action case raises the supreme court. she's already said she's going to recuse because of b her time on the board but to me it's almost less about the fact that she was on some random harvard board that she needs to recuse and the fact that over the course of the last decade, judge jackson has been flown to boston and put in anice hotel and given nice meals like harvard university . something like 40 or 50 times similarly, justice scalia when she passed away in texas he was flown out there by this guy john who had previously had a case before the supreme court so i don't know if that was the only time justice scalia had been been flown out to john's hunting ranch but there should be a little bit of a cooling-off period. if you're getting a free flight by whoever finds themselves before the supreme court there needs to be a little bit of a break between when you're allowed to hear' that case , similar to how he wasn't perfect when he did this but similar to how the judge, justice thurgood marshall refused from ncaa, ncaa h

they not only got into harvard together, but they got into harvard law together. i want to play nina simmons. she was someone just talking about how proud she is, but what she had to endure, judge jackson, to get here. here she is. >> and i'm just so proud of her as a black woman. during the hearings just watching her, i felt her pain, and i think many people, many reached out to express the same thing, to see what she went through, to see that she was strong, that she persevered. it really speaks not only to black women, but women everywhere. anyone that's felt out of place or not welcome in an arena or they are the minority. >> that was antoinettecoakley. another one of her friends said she predicted she would be the first black woman on the supreme court because she was so brilliant and she did stand out. she was a consensus builder. they did say she was vocal about the idea she wanted to connect to people who didn't agree with her all the time. she had these study questions in her dorm room where she would gather people and talk about the law. so when she gets

so his father decides not to send him the harvard and runs away to philadelphia. but yeah, it's it's that sort of self-taught person where he is apprentice to his brother who's a publisher and printer and every night. he takes books down from the shelves and learned and what franklin does there are two people in history maybe three of account aristotle, but two people in the history of humanity. who really tried to learn everything you could possibly know about every subject that was knowable leonardo da vinci and ben franklin and that's why i wanted to do biographies about because what they see is the connection between the arts and the humanities as you said at the end of your talk that people yeah steve jobs once said and it goes right to your story about poetry that basically the reason bill gates created the zoom, which was the most god-awful product ever to be done in microsoft. word is almost unusable was because he studied only coding in science and computer science. we're steve jobs studied calligraphy dance poetry and art when he went to college and so t

close by noting that during the hearing, judge jackson told the committee that has a freshman at harvard -- and she wondered if she could fit in, you know, whether she could make it and a black woman she didn't know leaned to her as they were walking by, probably in harvard yard, and said to judge jackson, she wasn't a judge then -- persevere. that is something that a the love us can relate to -- that a lot of us can relate to. perseverance, including myself, who came to this country as a poor immigrant kid, persevering to learn the language, learn the culture of a country i knew nothing about. judge jackson being on the supreme court would send such a powerful perseverance to everyone in this country. i would be honored to vote to confirm judge jackson. i look forward to calling her justice jackson. are. mrs. gillibrand: i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. gillibrand: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i stand here to proudly support ketanji brown jackson's nomination to the united states supreme court. the nation has

i close by noting that during the hearing, judge jackson told the committee that as a freshman at harvard, and she wondered if she could fit in, whether she could make it and a black woman she didn't know leaned to her as they were walking by, probably in harvard yard, and said to judge jackson, she wasn't a judge then, persevere. that's something that a lot of us can relate to, perseverance, including myself, who came to this country as a poor immigrant kid, persevering to learn the language, to learn the culture of a country i knew nothing about. judge jackson being on the supreme court was sent such a powerful message of perseverance to everyone in this country. i will be honored to vote to confirm judge jackson. i look forward to calling her justice jackson. i yield the floor. >> thank you, mr. president, i come to the floor to go into a little bit more detail about why i will not be voting for and in favor of judge ketanji brown jackson's confirmation to the supreme court. now, as we've heard and we appreciate, there's no doubt that judge jackson is highly educated, she has an impres

and cum laude from harvard law school and editor of harvard law review and worked for three judges andclerked for justice breyer should have done anything with that resume including any pursuing any number of opportunities in the legal profession and instead judge jackson chose public service in part because service was instilled by her in her parents from public school teachers and public service no doubt runs in her familyth and as a call to serve after graduating from right here in washington judge jackson's brother enlisted in the u.s. army right after the 9/11 attacks and was deployed aidde to iraq and then to follow in the footsteps with the baltimore police officer. and when i have the opportunity to meet with judge jackson last month we talked about a wide range of things and the diversity of her professional experience including her time as a public defender right here in the nation's capital. as most of us know public defenders work very long hours for very little pay. that they cannot have any lawyer at all. that every person charged with a crime has the presumption of innoc