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We the People

Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings Recap

We the People

National Constitution Center

News, News Commentary, History

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Nina Totenberg and Neal Katyal join host Jeffrey Rosen to unpack Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings and evaluate his testimony. Totenberg and Katyal recap what we learned about Kavanaugh’s judicial philosophy and his views on everything from the role of precedent to presidential power, and forecast how Kavanaugh, if confirmed, might shape the Supreme Court in years to come.

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I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to

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We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

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The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit

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chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.

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Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings have come to a close and to discuss what we've learned

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from them and what we've learned about the judicial philosophy of the

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nominee. I'm so honored and excited to be joined by two of America's leading

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commentators about the court and the Constitution, the great Nina Totenberg, and my dear brother-in-law near Neil Catial.

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Neil is here in studio with me.

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I convinced him to come to Philly because he wanted so much to have this conversation

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with all of you and with Nina. He is a partner at Hogan Lovels, acting

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solicitor general under President Obama.

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He's argued 37 cases before the Supreme Court,

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and he and I hope to do a video series in the future

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called Brothers-In-law.

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Neil, welcome to the Constitution Center.

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Thanks, great to be here.

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And Neo Totenberg is the Legal Affairs Correspondent for NPR, one of the nation's most

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legendary and prominent and prolific legal commentators.

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You've all heard her reports on NPR's All Things Considered Morning Edition, and she anchored

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NPR's Peabody Award-winning coverage of Justice Thomas's

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confirmation hearings and has covered over 220 Supreme Court confirmation

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