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Slow Burn

Season 11 Trailer: Becoming Justice Gorsuch

Slow Burn

Slate Audio

Politics, Society & Culture, History, News, Documentary

4.6 • 25.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Coming May 13: Host Susan Matthews traces the rise of Neil Gorsuch, from his formative years as a young conservative through his nomination to a “stolen seat” on the U.S. Supreme Court. Through interviews, legal analysis, and archival research, the mild-mannered Westerner emerges as the court’s most unpredictable—and most important—sitting justice.

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0:00.0

In 2017, we launched Slowburn to help process Donald Trump's presidency.

0:07.8

Everyone was talking about impeachment.

0:10.1

So, we looked back at Watergate.

0:12.9

Now we're 10 seasons in, and Donald Trump is president.

0:16.9

Again, somehow, everything seems worse.

0:20.7

Trump has accumulated power in so many destructive ways, but especially in one place.

0:28.1

At the end of the day, our policy as a nation is largely decided at the Supreme Court by the Supreme Court.

0:35.9

Those high court decisions are changing all of our lives.

0:39.6

The U.S. Supreme Court has reshaped the country's legal landscape on abortion, guns, religion,

0:45.1

and more.

0:46.3

There's a reason why the Supreme Court has become so powerful.

0:50.4

And that's the story we're going to tell in Slowburn, becoming Justice Gorsuch.

0:55.5

I take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I take it pretty darn seriously.

1:03.7

Neil Gorsuch is certainly not the most famous justice on the bench, but he's the key to understanding the current court.

1:11.2

He is the most unpredictable vote, and it's not really a close call. Like, he is the justice

1:16.6

most likely to be a true wild card. He gets nominated. You realize who it is. What happens

1:22.6

from there? I thought something that I can't say, that I shouldn't say. You can say it.

1:27.8

In my mind, I thought, oh, it's that asshole.

1:30.7

We'll find out where Justice Gorsuch came from, and I'll talk with people who knew him in his

1:35.5

formative years.

1:36.6

I always felt like Neil could pull off his face and underneath would be like some horrible,

1:41.3

scary alien.

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