The Right Won the Battle Over Kavanaugh. Can the Left Win the War?

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🗓️ 6 October 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed today as Supreme Court Justice of the United States in a 50-48 vote in the Senate, despite three different allegations of sexual assault and misconduct and wide opposition. The message of today’s vote is clear: If you’re a rich, white, conservative man in America, you will not be held accountable for your actions. Mehdi Hasan is joined by The Intercept’s Senior Politics Editor Briahna Gray and D.C. Bureau Chief Ryan Grim, the former advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton Naomi Wolf, and senior adviser to the Women’s March Winnie Wong to discuss what this means for women in America and what the Democrats can do to stop a Supreme Court dominated by the hard right from rolling back everything progressives have fought for.

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0:00.0	The energy, the passion, the fierce activism on display right here reflects the fury that voters,
0:11.2	especially women, but so many of us together across this country are feeling.
0:18.6	I'm Mayor the Hussain. Welcome to the show, which is a special. Oh my god, they actually just
0:29.3	went and confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court edition of Deconstructed.
0:39.7	That was the scene outside the Capitol today, as inside the Senate, horrific history was being made.
0:46.5	On this vote, the eyes are 50, the Nayser 48, the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh of Maryland to be
0:55.2	an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is confirmed.
1:03.7	Are you angry? You should be, because I'm angry. I'm fucking furious, excuse my language.
1:09.6	What a day, what a week, what a month this has been. This afternoon, Saturday the 6th of October,
1:15.4	2018, Brett Michael Kavanaugh, US Court of Appeals, judge for the District of Columbia Circuit,
1:21.4	former staff secretary to George W. Bush, former member of Kenneth Starr's investigation into
1:25.9	Bill Clinton, and former student of Georgetown Prep and Yale University, where he was accused of
1:31.6	sexual assault by not one, not two, but by three different women. That Brett Kavanaugh has been
1:38.3	confirmed today as the 114th Supreme Court Justice of the United States. Despite opposition and
1:44.5	criticism from two and a half thousand law professors, the American Bar Association, hundreds of
1:50.1	alumni of Georgetown Prep, his former roommate at Yale, the former Republican Supreme Court
1:55.2	Justice, and a former supporter of his, John Paul Stevens. At that time, I thought he had definitely
2:02.5	the qualifications for to be sit on the Supreme Court. His performance during the hearings
2:09.1	caused me to change my mind. Despite opposition from three of his closest friends from Yale,
2:14.0	who wrote a Washington Post op-ed on Thursday, headlined, we were Brett Kavanaugh's drinking buddies,
2:19.3	we don't think he should be confirmed. Despite opposition from thousands of people marching in
2:24.1	the streets here in Washington, DC, hundreds of women occupying Senate office buildings, day after
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