Is the Supreme Court Broken?

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

New York Times Opinion

New York Times, Journalism, News, Society & Culture, Ross Douthat

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🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Did Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation break the Supreme Court? Michelle Goldberg feels the patriarchy’s boot on her neck. David Leonhardt cautions Democrats about running on the #MeToo movement in the midterms. And Ross Douthat sings. Seriously. For background reading on this episode, visit nytimes.com/theargument.

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0:00.0	I'm Michelle Goldberg.
0:01.1	I'm Ross Douthett, and I'm David Lee and Hart.
0:03.1	We're opinion columnists here at the Times, and we often think the other two are wrong.
0:10.7	Not on everything, not all the time.
0:13.3	Michelle wants single-payer healthcare.
0:15.3	Ross wants prayer in schools.
0:17.0	I'm somewhere in between.
0:19.1	This is where we hash it out.
0:21.0	We think arguing is a good thing, so if you don't want to live in a political bubble, this
0:26.7	show is for you.
0:29.5	Today is the Supreme Court totally broken?
0:33.4	Also, me too, and the midterms.
0:36.5	And finally, we hear a whole new side of Ross.
0:39.5	Tell me something good.
0:42.6	Are you happy in this modern world?
0:45.6	Obviously the answer is no, because modernity is bad.
0:49.6	Let's go.
0:52.6	Since Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, it seems like we've been hearing this non-stop.
0:57.1	Subtenots, right and left, it was all an insult to democracy.
1:02.6	Our Supreme Court confirmation process has been in steady decline for more than 30 years.
1:11.2	President Trump does not care about the independence of the federal judiciary.
1:16.4	For the first time in decades, the court is firmly conservative, and now Democrats are
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