Hemingway and Severino: On Kavanaugh Confirmation, Identity Politics, and Pumpkin Spice Lattes
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
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🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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In this edition of The American Mind podcast, host Ryan Williams sits down with Mollie Hemingway, Senior Editor at The Federalist, and Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, to discuss their new bestselling book, Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court.
During the conversation, Williams, Hemingway and Severino discuss the unprecedented partisanship from the Left on the judicial confirmation process; the impact of the Clinton impeachment inquiry on the crusade against Justice Kavanaugh; the overjudicialization of politics and why it has transpired; DOJ malfeasance and the rise of "expertise;" law enforcement and the administrative state; the Kavanaugh confirmation fight as a proxy for the power of identity politics; the politicization of the Supreme Court; what Pumpkin Spice Lattes tell us about the state of American civil society and politics; the criticality of a common understanding of human nature, the Constitution and American identity; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | The team that was investigating Russia legitimately believed in this story and they were hoping that when Komi briefed the president-elect that he would say something that they could use as part of their investigation. |
| 0:13.0 | Top echelons of the FBI and the people working on this really fell for this story. |
| 0:17.6 | And yet they are supposed to be taken as the experts who get to decide whether we get to have the |
| 0:22.0 | president we elect and whether he gets to run |
| 0:24.3 | foreign policy as he wants to or just have a normal administration and it really |
| 0:30.0 | speaks to their power and the abuse of power that is possible there. Are you trying to understand the principles that guide American politics? So are we. |
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| 1:10.5 | In this episode, I sit down with Molly Hemingway and Carrie Severino about their new best-selling book, Justice on Trial, |
| 1:17.0 | the Kavanaugh confirmation, and the future of the Supreme Court. |
| 1:20.0 | Molly is a senior editor at the Federalist and a Fox News contributor, and also I'm proud to say, a former |
| 1:25.9 | Clermont Institute Lincoln Fellow, and Cary is chief counsel and policy director at the Judicial |
| 1:31.0 | Crisis Network, and a former law clerk to Justice |
| 1:33.8 | Clarence Thomas. Molly and Carey have been on a grueling media book tour for |
| 1:38.0 | months doing many podcasts and radio spots so rather than rehash the |
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