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Deep Background with Noah Feldman

Deep Background Presents: Takeover

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

Pushkin Industries

News Commentary, Government, News

4.4848 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We've taken our five part "Deep Bench" mini-series about the rise of the Federalist Society and expanded it into an audiobook entitled Takeover: How a Conservative Student Club Captured the Supreme Court. Takeover includes a preface and afterword including new commentary from Noah Feldman and never-heard-before interviews. The Federalist Society has become the most powerful legal organization in the country. How did this happen? What are the challenges it faces now? And why does it matter to everyone to know today? Download Takeover at www.pushkin.fm/takeover.

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:08.7

It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

0:13.8

Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

0:17.6

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics, the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history.

0:30.5

So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. Listen on theHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:40.2

Hi, Noah Feldman here. In the Deep Bench miniseries, my producers and I explored how the Federalist

0:46.0

Society became the most powerful legal organization in the country. Six of the nine Supreme Court

0:51.3

justices are current or former Fed Sock members.

0:55.0

Now, at the height of its power, the Federalist Society faces new challenges and internal divisions that threaten to splinter it.

1:02.0

It was just too important a story not to do more.

1:05.0

So we expanded our initial reporting into an audiobook.

1:09.0

Takeover how a conservative student club captured the

1:12.3

Supreme Court, includes additional interviews and a new preface and afterward. Takeover is available

1:18.5

wherever audiobooks are sold, including Pushkin.fm. When you buy direct from Pushkin.fm, you get the

1:25.9

book for $4.99 and also get the closest experience

1:28.9

to listening to the podcast. I urge you to give it a try. Thanks as always for your support. Pushkin Industries presents Takeover,

1:47.0

how a conservative student club captured the Supreme Court,

1:51.5

written by Noah Feldman with Lydia Jean Cott and read by Noah Feldman.

1:59.8

Now a time for mourning for a remarkable career and life well lived.

2:04.6

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87.

2:09.6

I stand before you today to fulfill one of my highest and most important duties under the United States Constitution, the nomination of

2:20.7

a Supreme Court Justice.

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