A 30-Year Plan to Transform the Courts

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🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Republicans have created a pipeline of conservative lawyers to help carry out a sweeping reconfiguration of the federal judiciary. Guest: Jason Zengerle, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:02.4	This is The Daily.
0:04.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:08.6	Today, with ruthless discipline and a planned decades in the making,
0:14.6	the Republican Party is carrying out a sweeping transformation of the federal judiciary.
0:20.6	In many ways, it culminates with Brett Kavanaugh,
0:25.2	whose Supreme Court confirmation hearings begin this week.
0:29.5	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:32.6	It's Tuesday, September 4th.
0:35.6	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:43.0	In a unanimous decision, the nine Supreme Court justices ruled racial segregation
0:48.6	in publicly supported schools to be unconstitutional, declaring that it denied equal opportunity.
0:55.0	The Supreme Court in the 1950s and 60s.
0:57.8	The state cannot, in fringe upon the right of Richard and Elder Loving,
1:01.7	to marry because of race.
1:03.6	Into the 70s.
1:04.8	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
1:10.2	He came a real vehicle of liberal social policy.
1:13.6	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
1:13.8	That every man you're getting versus Wayne Wright.
1:15.8	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
1:15.8	It's in Thailand, to the benefit of council.
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