Joy Reid
Pundit
American political pundit (1968-)
History was made today, as the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first ever confirmation hearing for a black woman, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States.
We're also bracing ourselves for racism and sexism to be right in the spotlight next week at these hearings.
Standing in her way would be very stupid politics for Republicans or for their conservative Democratic friends.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is poised to become the first black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice.
Putin's invasion of Ukraine has been resoundingly repudiated by the majority of the planet, except for a few places that have their own loose relationship with democracy.
That is Putin himself holding a MAGA-style stadium rally in Moscow this morning to galvanize Russian support for what he's euphemistically calling a special military operation but which the rest of the world knows as the mass slaughter of…
If Russia plans to occupy Ukraine, then Ukrainians are showing that there will be significant resistance.
Putin continues his terror campaign against Ukraine civilian population, pulverizing residential infrastructure with missile strikes again today.
Putin has distorted the truth, calling his war a special military operation with the mission of -- quote -- 'denazifying Ukraine.' None of that, of course, is true.