• February 25, 2022 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    February 25, 2022 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    Feb 26, 2022 01:04 AM EDT

    Friday on the NewsHour, as Russian forces close in on Kyiv and Ukrainians struggle to repel the invasion, we talk to the head of NATO about the West's response. Then, President Biden chooses federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the coming U.S. Supreme Court vacancy. Also, new ...

  • Russia begins assault on Kyiv amid fierce fighting across Ukraine as U.S. sanctions Putin

    Russia begins assault on Kyiv amid fierce fighting across Ukraine as U.S. sanctions Putin

    Feb 25, 2022 11:55 PM EDT

    ... continues in the central, southern, and eastern reaches of Ukraine. Nick Schifrin reports. ... Judy Woodruff: We have two major stories tonight. President Biden has chosen Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman to ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Biden's Supreme Court nomination

    Brooks and Capehart on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Biden's Supreme Court nomination

    Feb 25, 2022 11:25 PM EDT

    ... also, Republican leaders, those who say that they're Republican leaders, should be prepared to condemn those folks, because there is no question that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is qualified to be on the court, should be on the court, and is not some radical, but, as David said, is ...

  • 56 percent of Americans think Biden’s first year was a failure

    56 percent of Americans think Biden’s first year was a failure

    Feb 25, 2022 05:00 PM EDT

    WATCH: How U.S. lawmakers are reacting to the escalating Ukraine crisis Majority approves of Biden’s pledge to pick a Black woman Supreme Court nominee On Friday, Biden named Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his pick for the U.S. Supreme Court. WATCH: Why Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is ...

  • WATCH: US will join European allies in imposing sanctions aimed at Putin, White House says

    WATCH: US will join European allies in imposing sanctions aimed at Putin, White House says

    Feb 25, 2022 03:17 PM EDT

    ... wealth fund meant to draw capital into the Russian economy. The briefing also comes on the same day that Biden nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship ...

  • WATCH: What we know about 3 judges Biden may be considering for the Supreme Court

    WATCH: What we know about 3 judges Biden may be considering for the Supreme Court

    Feb 15, 2022 10:17 PM EDT

    ... Bennett and Lisa Desjardins talked to those who knew and worked with each of the judges that may be considered. Read more about them below. Ketanji Brown Jackson https://youtu.be/fobk6xlxrEo Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Florida. She was president ...

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the Supreme Court vacancy, the fight for control of the GOP

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the Supreme Court vacancy, the fight for control of the GOP

    Feb 14, 2022 11:35 PM EDT

    ... Tamara Keith of NPR. So, hello to both of you. And I do want to begin with Geoff Bennett's report just now on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Amy, this is one of three -- we believe she is one of the three finalists President Biden's talking to this week ...

  • Biden’s vow of Black justice a nod to his most loyal voters

    Biden’s vow of Black justice a nod to his most loyal voters

    Jan 28, 2022 05:06 PM EDT

    ... the White House why that vote mattered,” Bonier said. Biden's early discussions about a successor to Breyer have focused on U.S. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger, according to people familiar with the matter who ...

  • Here's who may replace Justice Breyer, and what Democrats can do if Republicans oppose

    Here's who may replace Justice Breyer, and what Democrats can do if Republicans oppose

    Jan 27, 2022 11:55 PM EDT

    ... And I can report what Democrats are telling me on the hill as they see the different advantages to each one. The first is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Now, she's someone interesting enough that Biden personally interviewed last year before he elevated her to the Court of Appeals. Now ...

  • Examining Justice Breyer's legacy and how his retirement may change the court

    Examining Justice Breyer's legacy and how his retirement may change the court

    Jan 27, 2022 11:45 PM EDT

    ... it's -- in that sense, this vote is not quite as important. I do think some of the names that are being floated around, like Ketanji Jackson and Leondra Kruger, these are spectacular, spectacular names. And we're so lucky to have people like that on the so-called short ...