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Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.

I'm Trey Orndorf, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University, and I'm joined,

as always, by Ken Katkin, a professor of law at Chase Law School.

Welcome back to the politics, guys, Ken.

Oh, it is great to be back, Trey.

Well, we, of course, have gotten the best possible day to go further.

We've met some really interesting stories this week.

The biggest story this week is Amy Barrett, as she is the nominee picked last Saturday

by President Donald Trump.

But of course, Ken, as you well know, our colleagues decided to postpone their

show so that they could, you know, steal this from us. But we're still going to talk about it.

Because, of course, starting up next week, she's already been making the rounds in the Senate

right now. But next week we will actually

have Judiciary Committee hearings on her.

But I just wanted to kind of start the show getting your perspective on the nominee in terms

of their legal position as a potential Supreme Court justice, because something tells me that you're not going to be

particularly happy with her. But I'm curious why. So why don't you start us up? Yeah, I'm not

particularly happy with her. And of course, you know, I'll admit straight out that, you know,

my primary and dominant objection to her is not a personal one. It's that I believe that this was a stolen

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