WEBVTT - Deep Background Presents: Takeover

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<v Speaker 1>Pushkin Hi Noah Feldman. Here in the Deep Bench mini series,

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<v Speaker 1>my producers and I explored how the Federalist Society became

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<v Speaker 1>the most powerful legal organization in the country. Six of

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<v Speaker 1>the nine Supreme Court justices are current or former Fedstock members.

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<v Speaker 1>Now at the height of its power, the Federalist Society

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<v Speaker 1>faces new challenges and internal divisions that threatened to splinter it.

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<v Speaker 1>It was just too important a story not to do.

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<v Speaker 1>More so we expanded our initial reporting into an audiobook,

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<v Speaker 1>Takeover How a Conservative Student Club Captured the Supreme Court

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<v Speaker 1>includes additional interviews and a new preface and afterward. Takeover

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<v Speaker 1>is available wherever audiobooks are sold, including Pushkin dot fm.

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<v Speaker 1>When you buy direct from Pushkin dot fm, you get

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<v Speaker 1>the book for four ninety nine and also get the

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<v Speaker 1>closest experience to listening to the podcast. I urge you

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<v Speaker 1>to give it a try. Thanks, as always for your support.

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<v Speaker 1>Pushkin Industries presents Takeover How a Conservative Student Club Captured

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<v Speaker 1>the Supreme Court, Written by Noah Feldman with Lydia Jane

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<v Speaker 1>Cott and read by Noah Feldman. Now a time for

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<v Speaker 1>mourning for a remarkable career and life wellly US Supreme

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<v Speaker 1>Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age

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<v Speaker 1>of eighty seven. I stand before you today to fulfill

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<v Speaker 1>one of my highest and most important duties under the

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<v Speaker 1>United States Constitution, the nomination of a Supreme Court justice.

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<v Speaker 1>When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September twenty twenty,

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<v Speaker 1>I knew one thing for sure, the person that Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump would nominate to replace her would be affiliated with

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<v Speaker 1>a powerful organization called the Federalist Society. As a constitutional

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<v Speaker 1>law professor at Harvard University, I spend a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>my time watching the Supreme Court. It's a big part

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<v Speaker 1>of my job. But this prediction did not take much

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<v Speaker 1>in the way of higher level expertise. The two other

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<v Speaker 1>Supreme Court justices the Trump had already appointed, Neil Gorsuch

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<v Speaker 1>and Brett Kavanaugh, are both affiliated with the Federalist Society,

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<v Speaker 1>so are eighty percent of the judges that Trump had

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<v Speaker 1>already appointed to the Courts of Appeals. The Federalist Society

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<v Speaker 1>is a club for conservative and libertarian lawyers. It's focused

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<v Speaker 1>on promoting conservative legal thought and on filling the American

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<v Speaker 1>judiciary with like minded allies. It was founded about forty

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<v Speaker 1>years ago by a bunch of law students nerds really,

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<v Speaker 1>who felt ostracized on their law school campuses because of

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<v Speaker 1>their conservative views. Since then, it's grown to become the

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<v Speaker 1>most influential legal organization in the United States ever, capable

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<v Speaker 1>of dramatically redefining American jurisprudence for decades to come. And

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<v Speaker 1>sure enough, Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who is

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<v Speaker 1>closely affiliated with the Federalist Society. I'm honored and humbled

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<v Speaker 1>to appear before you today as a nominee for Associate

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<v Speaker 1>Justice of the Supreme Court. With Amy Coney Barrett now

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<v Speaker 1>on the Supreme Court, six of the nine justices are

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<v Speaker 1>current or former Federalist Society members. This book, adapted from

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<v Speaker 1>a series on my podcast, Deep Background, is the story

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<v Speaker 1>of what the Federalist Society stands for, how it took

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<v Speaker 1>over the Supreme Court, and why, now that it has

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<v Speaker 1>achieved extraordinary success, it may actually be about to fall apart.