BUCK: We have right now a Supreme Court nominee hearing underway. The Senate Judiciary Committee is doing the usual questioning and the process of confirmation is underway here for Ketanji Brown Jackson, and look, Clay and I think — and you’ll correct me if I’m misstating this at all, but expect — that she will get confirmed, and I think she’ll get a few Republican votes for her confirmation, Clay.

Something could change in the next few days. But I’d be shocked if she was not confirmed, and what’s fascinating is the left — the same left-wing in the media — that I will never forgive or forget what they tried to do and did to Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh. They were unsuccessful in stopping him, but they were successful in just putting him through a ritualized humiliation based on obvious and insane lies.

Here is Elie Mystal of, I believe a Washington Post journalist. Here, I’ll let Mr. Mystal say it.

“Let’s let’s be very clear, what @HawleyMO is doing when he tries to do this, is he’s trying to get her killed,” says @ElieNYC on @CrossConnection. “He is trying to get violence done against a Supreme Court nominee.”https://t.co/RKzSohixIb via @mediaite pic.twitter.com/bWBVp6xoEm

— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) March 19, 2022

BUCK: Clay, Mystal is with The Nation Magazine. So left-wing commie stuff, even more so than The Washington Post. Notice they tried, the left and the Democrat Party — and Kamala Harris, herself, on the Senate Judiciary Committee. They went along with lies about a good man being a serial gang rapist in high school based upon lunatics coming forward.

And there were many of them, not just one or two, coming forward to claim he raped them when he was in high school. Obvious lies. When you’re looking at a Supreme Court nominee and people are talking about her actual judicial record, it might as well be violence. And as he says, “Josh Hawley is calling for violence!” These people are nuts. The left is insane. I don’t know how to say it more clearly.

CLAY: This is the same guy who said the Constitution was crap, I think recently, on The View. The idea that Senator Hawley — who has been on this show several times — is in any way encouraging violence against any Supreme Court nominee is, of course, utter ridiculousness. Senator Hawley was a Supreme Court clerk.

So he knows better than most what goes on inside the Supreme Court, but also that every single nominee for the Supreme Court — given the fact that it’s a lifelong nomination — there should be a robust discussion about the background of every nominee. But — and this is where I was super fired up like you were during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.

That doesn’t mean that every nincompoop with zero supporting evidence just gets to come out and say, “Oh, ‘insert justice here,’ raped me,” and we’re supposed to all believe that it instantaneously has credibility even when there’s no corroborating evidence whatsoever, and that is what happened with Kavanaugh. Now, there was no real…

In the grand scheme of things, they started to ramp up some Amy Coney Barrett attacks. I think the polling was so bad they thought they might lose suburban women. That was the genius of getting that nomination done when they did it. But I think Ketanji Brown Jackson is going to be relatively muted, and I think for this reason, Buck: Because the more Republicans fight on this, the more Joe Biden can argue this is some kind of massive victory.

When you know they’ve got the votes to get her through, even if all Republicans were united, Kamala Harris breaks the tie and puts her on the Supreme Court. So there’s no point in fighting a battle that you know you’re going to lose aggressively because you get the opportunity to declare victory to your opponent.

BUCK: There’s no point in interrupting your enemy when he’s making a mistake, and the Democrats are making endless mistakes — apart from, separate from the Supreme Court nomination situation right now — and so why give them the opportunity? Look, they should ask questions. And I know there’s this, she has been in the past as a judge not as severe on cases involving child sexual exploitation.

This is why the Senate has a confirmation process. They can ask them to explain. “Is that true?” I’d have to look more into her background. But separately, just on the politics of this, what you see is there’s no real gain for Republicans, because here’s the key difference. If you did derail the Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination, the Democrats would replace her.

And, by the way, that’s not going to happen. But even if they did, they’d replace her with another left-wing activist who will deliver for the left on the court 100%. With Republicans, it was, “If we shatter Brett Kavanaugh as a human being, maybe we’ll get a Merrick Garland-type moderate or centrist because Republicans have no backbone.

“And then we’ll actually get a lot of decisions that we want from the bench. So this is why it’s different, because our side does cave. We go, “We should respect the institution with a moderate.” The left is, “I want a hardcore leftist who will legislate from the bench.”

CLAY: What’s a little bit ridiculous about this… Look, Ketanji Brown Jackson, barring some insane blockbuster revelation in the judiciary committee hearings, is going to be on the Supreme Court. But because Biden painted himself into a corner, there actually aren’t even that many nominees to consider who are black women who are in a position to be put on the Supreme Court, right?

Basically, Biden interviewed three or four total. So unlike if Brett Kavanaugh had got pulled, when you go back to the full list that Donald Trump had put out, when Biden says I’m only putting a black woman on the Supreme Court, he’s automatically eliminating, what, 94% of the overall United States population from even being considered?

BUCK: So we think she’s going to get through. We’ll continue to follow it. I’m not going to deep dive into it, because I think we’re right on this one.