Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Scott Detro. I cover the Presidential

Campaign.

I'm Kelsey Snell. I cover Congress.

And I'm Carrie Johnson, National Justice Correspondent.

It's 620 Eastern on Saturday, September 26, and about an hour ago, in the White House

Rose Garden, President Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

She is a woman of unparalleled achievement, towering intellect, sterling credentials,

and unyielding loyalty to the Constitution, Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

We're going to spend the rest of the podcast talking about Judge Barrett, but Carrie,

let's just start out with this. Three nominations to the Supreme Court is not something that

George Bush got. It's not something that Bill Clinton got. It's something Barack Obama

got, but was not able to follow through on for reasons we will obviously discuss later.

What the president has a chance to do here is extremely rare.

This is an enormous opportunity for President Trump and majority leader Mitch McConnell

to cement a conservative legacy on the court for the next generation to come. Worth pointing

out, Scott, I've spent some of the last three years chronicling this campaign to fill

court vacancies. The president and Mitch McConnell have filled over 200 lifetime tenure federal

judgeships. If they're successful here, they'll get a third Supreme Court pick too.

Even if President Trump loses the election in November, that's something that will reverberate

for decades to come. Kelsey judges their known in legal communities they're known in small

political circles, but really the nomination at the White House is that moment to introduce

yourself to the country. What did Judge Barrett say about her judicial philosophy? What did

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