Welcome to the dispatch podcast.

I was your host Sarah Isger, but today my microphone is being stolen.

It is being wrestled away from me as we speak by Steve Hayes.

Sarah, I have to take the microphone because not like on any other day, it's not like

on any other day, we don't want your expertise.

But on today, we particularly want your expertise because you have lived through things that

are directly relevant to what we're going to be talking about today.

We have put together an outstanding panel to discuss the retirement of Justice Stephen

Breyer and the nomination fight to come.

We have with us Greg Nunziata, who has vast experience in traditional nominations on

Capitol Hill and general expertise on all things legal.

Greg writes for us and has served on Capitol Hill.

We also have John McCormick, former colleague of mine at the Wheat and Standard.

Now at National Review, John has spent a lot of time covering traditional nominations

and exactly these kinds of fights.

Thank you all for joining us and let's, as Sarah would say, let's dive right in.

Greg, I want to start with you.

We were recording this late afternoon on Thursday.

A couple of hours ago, Justice Breyer made an appearance at the White House alongside

President Joe Biden.

They all said nice things about one another, about the courts, about the process.

And now there is officially this opening on the Supreme Court.

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