Feb. 11, 2022: Where things stand with SCOTUS
The first clips of President Joe Biden's sitdown interview with NBC\u2019s Lester Holt were released Thursday night (the full video will air on Sunday\u2019s Super Bowl pregame show).\nBiden announced that his shortlist of potential nominees to replace Justice Stephen Breyer is down to four. Biden: \u201cI\u2019ve taken about four people and done the deep dive on them \u2014 meaning thorough background checks, and to see if there\u2019s anything in the background that would make them not qualified.\u201d Also: \u201c\u200b\u200bI think whomever I pick will get a vote from the Republican side for the following reason: I\u2019m not looking to make an ideological choice here.\u201d\xa0\nAnd WaPo\u2019s Seung Min Kim has a look at the status of Biden\u2019s SCOTUS selection process.\xa0\nListen to Playbook Deep Dive: The Gen X activists upending Democratic politics\nRaghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Senior Producer of POLITICO Audio.