Raising the bar: Ketanji Brown Jackson, a former public defender and current federal district court judge, is a top contender for the D.C. Circuit.(Bill O’Leary / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
If Mitch controlled the Senate, how would he Explain why Jackson’s hearings weren’t to be? No hearings while the French election nears? No hearings held in even-numbered years?
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”