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Podcast: An Irishman Abroad
Episode: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (Ron DeSantis, Lea Thomas & Ukraine) - Irishman In America
Description: It should have been a golden moment that both sides could unify on. The confirmation hearings for America’s first ever black female Supreme Court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Instead Ted Cruz et al turned it into the worst kind of juvenile political pantomime. Marion McKeone tries to answer the question, “Why are these hearings necessary?” In the second half of the episode she gets into the latest developments in Ukraine and why she feels President Biden isn’t doing nearly enough to help those fleeing the violence and those stranded on the ground. Finally we look at the grotesque way in wh...