Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Ambition w/Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post
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🗓️ 27 December 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Bill talks with Ruth Marcus, columnist for the Washington Post and author of Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover. They dig into how Kavanaugh sought a seat on the Court from just after law school, how he almost lost the battle and how the GOP rallied to him in the end. Is he as strongly conservative as Justices Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas? And what we can expect from this crucial session of the Court.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:11.0 | Well, if not already, a whole library of books will eventually be published about how Donald |
| 0:16.3 | Trump managed to beat Hillary Clinton in 2016. |
| 0:20.2 | Indeed, there were many factors in his surprising |
| 0:22.9 | win, but one of the big ones was he convinced evangelical voters that despite all of his |
| 0:28.7 | flaws they should vote for him because he promised to appoint far-right anti-abortion justices |
| 0:35.8 | to the Supreme Court. And on that promise, Donald Trump has delivered, |
| 0:40.3 | first by appointing Neil Gorsuch, |
| 0:42.3 | who didn't change the court that much since he merely replaced Antonin Scalia, |
| 0:47.3 | but then by appointing Brett Kavanaugh, |
| 0:50.3 | who changed the balance of the court |
| 0:52.3 | and caused it to tilt even farther to the right by replacing swing vote, Anthony Kennedy. |
| 0:59.0 | How did Kavanaugh get to the court? How'd he survived his contentious confirmation hearing against the accuser Christine Blasey Ford? |
| 1:06.0 | And what did we learn about him from his first year on the court. |
| 1:14.3 | Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus tells it all in her powerful new book, just published, Supreme Ambition, |
| 1:19.4 | Brett Kavanaugh and the conservative takeover of the Supreme Court. |
| 1:23.8 | I sat down with Ruth Marcus in her office at the downtown headquarters of the Washington Post. |
| 1:30.2 | Ruth Marcus is nice to see you. |
| 1:31.6 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:32.8 | Yeah, good to be here at the Washington Post. |
| 1:35.0 | That's right. |
| 1:36.2 | So we are now in, just finished reading Supreme Ambition, Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover. |
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