This is the Libertarian Podcasts from the Hoover Institution.

I'm your host Tom Church, and the Libertarian is Professor Richard Epstein.

Richard's a Peter and Kirsten Bedford senior fellow here at the Hoover Institution.

He's the Lawrence A Tish Professor of Law at NYU and is a senior lecture at the University of Chicago.

Richard, today we've got a lot to talk about op-ed pages at the New York Times at

law schools around the country, as well as an ongoing Supreme Court candidate nomination.

So I'm not sure how closely you've been following this nomination, the process, I'm sure you have.

But one thing that stuck out was a Washington Post op-ed editorial earlier that said something along the lines of Republicans boasts that they didn't pull a Kavanaugh. In fact, they pulled something worse. And I just saw that and I think we have to get your reaction to how Republicans have been treating Judge Brown and the process. And well, if it compares to previous Republican nominations. I mean I think

that they've literally lost their minds if they make that kind of a statement. The

situation with respect to Kavanaugh was fought as much in the general world of newspapers and

politics. There were all sorts of intrigues going on, information, the testimony of

Captain Blasy Ford, Christine Blaise. The huge denunciations that took place of

Kavanaugh, for example, the Everett the Force, the Yale Law School Dean Heather

Gerkin to simply remove the congratulations he gave vicious editorials in the New York Times and the

Washington Post of other tax, saying this man has all sorts of things to have,

having no recognition that whatever you think of the capabilities of

Judge Jackson on the district court and briefly on the Court of Appeals,

Kavanaugh was before this entire fiasco started, regarded as one of the sort of top five or ten appellate court judges in the United States generally praised on a bipartisan basis.

And he came out of that, I mean to the point where he was almost a nervous wreck. I mean, I did see him speak about it at the Federal Society sometime after it happened. And you could see he was still traumatized by the particular event. This essentially had him, it his family, it

his professional career, it was vicious, it was uncalled for, it was a concerted in and outside campaign. I just cannot understand why they say that.

What happened is individual senators ask questions that somebody might regard as

mildly inappropriate with respect to Judge Jackson.

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