From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another

edition of The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. On this episode, we'll talk with Adam Carrington from

Hillsdale's politics department on what it means when we say President Trump is reshaping

the courts. We'll hear excerpts of a lecture by Mark Hemingway from Real Clear Investigations

given as part of a Hillsdale Symposium on COVID-19 on the lack of preparedness of U.S.

public health agencies. Ethan Stoneman from Hillsdale's Rhetoric and Public Address Department will

talk about Isocrates and rhetoric. And Haley McNamara, a 2015 graduate of Hillsdale College, will discuss her work as

vice president of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.

We're joined by Dr. Adam Carrington, assistant professor of politics at Hillsdale College.

You can find him on Twitter at Carrington AM.

Dr. Carrington, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

Glad to be here.

Talking with you today about this phrase that we hear often, that is Donald Trump, President

Trump, is reshaping the judiciary through his nominations and the Senate confirmation

of judges. What do we mean when we say that? What do we mean when we say Donald Trump is

reshaping the judiciary? Right. It doesn't mean that he's passing laws that fundamentally

create a new court or abolish courts or things like that. What it really means is that he has been

able to nominate a very large number of judges, one quarter of all circuit court

judges, which is the level right below the Supreme Court. He's flipped several circuits

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