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On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick talks with Jill Lepore.

As debate over prospective Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch continues in Congress,

Lepore discusses how history informs the way Gorsuch and others think about the law.

Now, last week, Neil Gorsuch took questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee in his bid to fill

the seat that Justice Scalia had held for so long on the Supreme Court. One question that

conservatives and liberals alike have been asking is how does Gorsuch's legal philosophy compare

to Scalia's? And to understand that, you have to look not just at the record of his decisions

as a judge, which is important enough, but at its view of history, that's what Jill Lippor

tells us. Jill is both a staff writer at the magazine and a historian. She wrote a fantastic

essay recently about the Supreme Court, history, and the law. Now, Joe, before we get to Neil Gorsuch,

I think you should start by describing what you call the history test, not the kind of test

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