Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change on the Supreme Court,

you know, for a change, more specifically on the pernicious role of the Federalist Society,

you know, for a change, with the focus on a book about Brett Kavanaugh,

for a change, written by Jackie Combs, the Los Angeles Times White House correspondent for the first time.

Jackie's book, Descent, does the work that the Judiciary Committee and the FBI were supposed to do, looking at Brett Kavanaugh's personal history.

The FBI was supposed to lead an investigation on Kavanaugh and the accusations against him.

It turns out, of course, the tips from the tip line they set up went right to Don McGahn,

Trump's White House counsel, and then into his waist

basket. Combs does the work the FBI was supposed to do doing extensive interviews with those who

contacted the FBI, including Kavanaugh's undergraduate classmates at Yale and law school classmates there.

And what emerges is not a pretty picture. You will recall his response to Amy Klobuchar's question,

have you ever had so much to drink that you've blacked out? No, have you? If you suspected that the no, have you, was a tell, that he actually had

routinely drunk so much that he passed out and that had been witnessed by countless friends

and classmates and dormates and folks who witnessed this behavior after

he had started his career.

Well, then, your suspicions are confirmed by Jackie Combs, who had felt the need to do the work

that the FBI had failed to do.

All this, as we are now into the Supreme Court's new term with the court on the

defensive Justice Amy Coney-Barritt feeling the need to deny that the 6-3 Supreme Court is

driven by partisan bias. This at the McConnell Center, speech he gave at the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville with Mitch McConnell sitting not five feet away.

She's not stupid and McConnell's not stupid.

To me, it was a way of taunting us.

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