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ICYMI: @mehdirhasan walks through what you need to know from another day of questions for #SCOTUS nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, when bad-faith, hypocritical attacks by Republicans continued.
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Shouldn’t the U.S. be looking at the long-term consequences of proxy wars when considering what to do about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
@IvoHDaalder and @lieven_anatol discuss with @mehdirhasan:
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“Here’s the thing about proxy wars,” says @mehdirhasan. “They tend to drag on, they tend to be harder to resolve diplomatically, & they tend to result in massive civilian casualties.” Why is this important? Because it's where the war in Ukraine could be headed next:
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By most estimates, Russia has lost more soldiers in Ukraine in 4 weeks than the U.S. lost in Iraq - and Afghanistan - over 2 decades.
"This," says @mehdirhasan, "is what Russia losing looks like."
But that may actually worsen the killing, and the danger of wider war:
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If you don’t think women - and especially black women - are held to a different standard than white men, just imagine what would have happened if Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had gone ‘full Kavanaugh’ at today’s confirmation hearing:
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.@mehdirhasan brings you all the context you *didn’t* get from hypocritical Republican senators during the first day of questioning of Biden’s SCOTUS nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
WATCH:
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced hours of questions from senators during her second day of confirmation hearings. @ProfMMurray and @importantmeagan break down how the day went tonight at 7p ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/ltTZ_VnOQhk
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.@mehdirhasan: Sen. Cornyn accused Judge Jackson of calling former Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld and former President Bush “war criminals” in a 2005 legal filing. However, Cornyn was misquoting Judge Jackson. Here's what actually happened. msnbc.com/supreme-court/conf…
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.@mehdirhasan: Going after a Black nominee by screaming CRT — as the GOP’s official Twitter account is doing — is pure, unadulterated racism. msnbc.com/supreme-court/conf…
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.@mehdirhasan: Guantanamo Bay continues to be a stain on the moral conscience of this nation. And Sen. Graham should be ashamed for using this confirmation hearing to drum up support for a discredited detention facility. msnbc.com/supreme-court/conf…
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.@mehdirhasan: In the lead-up to the hearings, Republicans have accused Judge Jackson of "defending terrorists." That is a lie. msnbc.com/supreme-court/conf…
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“If we’re gonna talk about the power to influence elections,” @petersgoodman tells @mehdirhasan, “[Citizens United] just totally ripped off the checks that we had on the process.”
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President Joe Biden has initiated plenty of programs and issued many sanctions to go after Russian oligarchs’ assets, but loopholes remain. As @davidsirota tells @mehdirhasan, we know what we need to do about it, but the appetite isn’t there in DC:
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Today in bad-faith attacks, Sen. Josh Hawley accused Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of being soft on child-porn offenders. @mehdirhasan brings receipts about new levels of cynicism and hypocrisy from the Missouri Republican:
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“It would be shattering one of the last glass ceilings in our government,” says the first African-American woman to serve in the Senate, Amb. Carol Moseley Braun, about confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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Since some Senate Republicans on the Judiciary Cmte. seemed to dip into the Southern segregationists’ 1960s playbook, @mehdirhasan uses the wayback machine to see how Thurgood Marshall’s 1967 confirmation hearings can preview what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faces:
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Confirmation hearings began today for the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. Former Senators @russfeingold and Carol Moseley Braun debrief with @mehdirhasan on the historic day.
7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/zryRgzJJ2Sg
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Are loopholes that American oligarchs helped to create making it difficult to track down the wealth of Russia's billionaires? @davidsirota and @petersgoodman weigh in tonight with @mehdirhasan at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/zryRgzJJ2Sg
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Americans overwhelmingly support efforts to sanction Russia in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. @MehdiRHasan asks @SenatorCardin if such a development might change the way lawmakers view the BDS movement against Israel.
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