Welcome to a special edition of the commentary magazine daily podcast.

This is Sunday, September 27, 2020. We have never done a Sunday podcast before. We're

not going to do one tomorrow because it is young Kupur, but we were so stunned, I

think all of us by the appearance of Amy Coney Barrett on the White House lawn being formally

announced as the nominee for the Supreme Court and the political and social implications

of this nomination that we thought maybe we would get together and have a conversation

about this. Of course, being Associate Editor Noah Rothman, Hi, Noah. Hi, John.

Senior Render Christine Rosen, Hi, Christine. Hi, John.

And Executive Editor Abe Greenwald, Hi, Abe. Hi, John. So, Christine, give me a sense

of the drama, not that it was very dramatic, but of the drama of the Amy Coney Barrett

announcement and her speech and everything. Well, I think those of us who have been following

it closely have seen a lot of scrambling on the part of Democrats on the left to try

to find something that will stick on Amy Coney Barrett. Like, oh, she's stealing a seat

that she shouldn't, she doesn't have a right to. Oh, she's a crazy hand-made and like

Catholic, you know, all of these things have been swirling for the last 48 hours. So,

she steps up onto the international stage and gives, shows the world who she is. And

she is amazing, quite frankly. She is, I mean, I have a, she's my generation and very, very

proud to say she's a Gen Xer. She has a large, wonderful, beautiful family who she brought

with her that includes two kids who she adopted from Haiti. She has a young son that has

special needs. But the first thing she said, one of the two things struck me one is that

she said, I love America and I love the Constitution. And what it was startling to hear someone

just say that in a way that was so honest and so positive. She then went on to pay homage

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