WEBVTT - Ep 01: Swinging A Bat 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.599 The story you're about to hear is inspired by true 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:12.399 events nineteen seventy one. Sarah Weddington is a young lawyer 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.600 in Dallas, Texas, desperately looking for her first job. At 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.600 the same time, in Saint Paul, Minnesota Circuit Court, judge 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.520 Harry Blackman is about to receive an offer that will 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:25.280 change his life. 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:26.800 Sarah and Harry are on a. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:35.600 Collision course that will forever alter America. From iHeart Podcasts, 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:41.720 This is Supreme The Battle for Rome, starring Maya Hawk 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:42.839 and William H. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:44.200 Macy. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.840 Whenever You're ready, mister Chief Justice and may. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:49.720 Have played the Court. 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.760 Episode one Swinging a bat. 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.400 I see you graduated high school at sixteen, college at nineteen, dear, 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.399 first woman from your college to attend law school. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:06.920 Yes, sir, I sure was the very first. 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:12.080 Uh huh, missus Weddington. Let's cut to it. What's your 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:12.720 goal here? 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:17.240 My goal? I'd like to join your firm, sir. The 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:18.360 law is everything to me. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:25.000 Yes, But you already have a husband, dear, Sorry, was 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:25.600 that a question? 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.360 Well, at least you wouldn't be hunting for one of 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.959 the firm. I suppose you'll leave us the moment you 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:31.679 have kids. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.440 My husband, and I have no plans to have any. 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:38.119 Sir, for now, while you're in your early twenties. 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:42.240 Quite a gamble for us to take, Missus Weddington, you understand, sir. 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.039 I graduated in the top quarter of my class, and 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.480 that's despite being three years younger than any other student. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.720 Yes, but you see, in the office our lawyers use 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:51.960 shall we say. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.080 Colorful language from time to time. 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:55.440 It may offend you. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.000 I assure you, sir, I've heard much worse in college. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.440 I was president of the home Beaker's Association of America. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:03.040 I don't get it. 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.680 Was that a joke which ansel will get me the job? Sir? 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.359 It's not just sad, Missus Weddington. Only way to train 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:10.880 associates is to cuss them. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.360 Out once in a while. Partners never be able to 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:14.640 do that. 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:15.440 As someone like. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:20.280 You cook your husband dinner dear. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.560 Right, the partner's wives may have an issue with an 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:25.280 associated with. 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:26.560 Legs like yours. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:27.919 I see. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:30.880 We just don't have a spot for you. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:35.640 Personal Injury Lawyers of Dallas. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:36.919 How can I jerk your car? 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:38.200 How fast can you? 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:38.960 Ty, sweetie? 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.040 Honestly I have no idea. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.480 Well, we're short on clerks, so just do your best. 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:46.399 The pay is a dollar ninety five an hour. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:47.680 I'll take it. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.760 After successfully placing Warren Berger on the Supreme Court, President 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.680 Nixon has struck out with his next two high profile nominees. 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:14.600 Both men became engulfed in scandal and lost difficult confirmation battles, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.840 an embarrassing setback for the president. The question is, will 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.799 mister Nixon managed to find someone who can rise above 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:27.320 controversy in these deeply polarized times and in other. 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:31.400 News A jewish by the Chicago Deft. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:38.280 Guilty of the. 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:41.840 Drake there, buddy, Hello, buddy, boy, looks like you got 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.160 a lot more cons and pros there? What your list 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.440 on the cocktail napkin there? Most guys use that to 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.200 have girls write their phone numbers on them. But here 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.880 let me see cons loss of contact, my friends and 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:57.120 family lonely. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:58.120 Don't read that. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.640 Okay, what's list four? 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.120 I may be offered a job. This is just how 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:05.280 I chew things over. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:09.560 A job in this economy. Whatever it is, buddy, I 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.880 take it, bart tender. 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:17.000 I'll have whatever my buddy's drinking. Keep them coming. This 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:18.440 is the spot you picked, Harry. 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.360 You said you wanted low Keywarren or was it under 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:25.799 the radar? I was flight in long wait. 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:27.720 I've been here before. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:28.400 That's right. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.720 I can't believe this dump is still open. You're feeling 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:32.640 nostalgic or. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.719 What something like that. It's good to see you, Warren. 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.960 You look absolutely green, Harry. When I got the call, 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.080 I went for a drink too, but not like this. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.920 I certainly hope it's not because you're his third choice. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.200 No, I shouldn't have been in his top five hundred, 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:50.360 let alone top three. 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:55.000 Consider yourself lucky. His first two nominees got rejected. Now 0:04:55.040 --> 0:05:00.400 he needs someone uncontroversial exactly, and I got sport Coat's 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.200 more controversial than you, Harry. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.560 I'm honored to be the most boring man you could 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:05.280 think of, Warren. 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.920 Look, it would be an interesting got haynes Worth fifty 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:09.440 five forty five rejection. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:11.279 You're perfect, Harry. 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.000 I'm thinking of turning him down. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:17.520 Bartender. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.400 We're gonna switch the devils over here. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.799 I don't want the spotlight. I'm not like you, Warren. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.040 Please, that's your father talking. 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.359 I know this is difficult for you to understand that 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.760 I have no aspirations for fame. 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.680 You sit on the eighth circuit, Harry, you're not exactly anonymous. 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.520 Excuse me, ma'am. I'm sorry to bother you. Do you 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:37.960 know who Harry Blackman is. 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.159 Don't think so? Should? 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:40.440 I know? 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:44.320 You absolutely should not. Thank you now, you see I 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:45.799 don't want that to change. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:47.679 Excuse me, ma'am. 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:53.000 Who's Warren Berger, Chief Justice of the United States, the 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:54.880 most powerful jurist in the country. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.600 Bring any bows, any at all? 0:05:58.160 --> 0:05:58.240 No? 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.320 Sorry, thank you very much. 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:06.040 You see anonymous, You'll remain It's America, Harry. Seventy five 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.240 percent of people can name the Seven Dwarves, but I 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.800 bet you anything, three out of four can't name a 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.680 single Supreme Court justice. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.159 How many of the seven Dwarfs had had their lives 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.080 picked apart by the Senate Judiciary Committee one. 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:20.560 You don't need me to tell you what kind of 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:24.159 opportunity this is. This is what puts you in the 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:25.000 history books. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.800 Harry. I refuse to let you blow it. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.320 And what happens if we disagree in a case? 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.360 Christ Harry, I hope we do. How will it look 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.680 if you side with me on everything? They're gonna find 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.320 out you were best man at my wedding and brought 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.080 a date to my senior prom Hell, your mom's cooked 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.080 me more pot roast than my own. Plus we're both 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.679 Nixon met it'll be good for public perception. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:48.400 On the rare. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:49.720 Occasions we disagree. 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.279 You just know they're gonna print your mom's nickname for 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.080 us as soon as you're seated. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.320 The Minnesota Twins. It did occur to me. It'll be 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.839 an answer in some poor kid's history exams. 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.440 Can you imagine if somebody had told us when we 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.640 were that age that one day we'd be sitting on 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:12.400 the Supreme Court together? Harry, we were going to climb mountains. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:14.800 This is how we do that. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:20.560 Oh, I feel like the roof is caved in on me. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:37.440 Next. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.560 Hi, Sorry, I'm in a big hurry. I'm just on 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.280 my lunch break. I need to open a credit card. Please, 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.640 here are my forms. Let's have a look. 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:54.680 Way there, Sarah Calvin, Hello, I haven't seen you since graduation? 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.040 How you doing, Darling? What from you end up at? 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.760 Oh, a smaller one. 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.720 I'm at Whitfield Taft, Brad Peter and I'll land it 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:05.120 up there. 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:10.560 Actually, Oh, okay, all right, missus Weddington. Everything's in order. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.040 We'll just need your husband's signature and you're all set. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:14.160 Excuse me. 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.120 Oh, if he's not here, take it home, bring it 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:17.960 back anytime next. 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.320 No, see, I need it today. I don't have time 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:20.880 to come back. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.280 She's telling the truth, ma'am. She's an attorney. They run 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:25.800 us associate's ragged. 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.880 Says on your application. You work in a clerical office, 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:29.800 Missus Weddington. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.840 I just need the credit card, please, ma'am your husband. 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.400 I'm the one who makes the money in the family. 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.520 Such as it is, this is my credit. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.679 Card, ma'am. I can vouch for the little lady, smartest 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.600 girl lawyer. I know she ran circles around us. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:49.200 Boys at ut I'm sorry, Missus Weddington. Bank policy a 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.600 man's signature is required. I'm sure your husband won't mind. 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.360 I'm putting my husband through law school on my clerical salary, 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:56.200 whether he minds or. 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.640 Puts yourself in our place, Missus Weddington. If women were 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.400 allowed to open up credit cards on a whim, a 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.160 lot of them would just go on to shopping spree. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.360 Maybe your friend here could sign no, that's not necessary, 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:10.000 thank you. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:29.400 See you around then, Sarah, you. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.079 Look nervous, Harry, nonsense, Dottie. This is what I look 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:33.960 like when I grill. 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:38.520 Uh huh. You flipped that burger fourteen times. I believe 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:39.000 it's ready. 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:40.240 I just want this to go. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:41.439 Well it will. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.320 I'm not worried about one of them any other. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:44.840 Well. 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.760 Remember, she's just a person like you or me. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:49.520 She is not like you or me. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.160 Oh boy, oh, here we go. Deep breath, my love, 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:59.719 we'll face them together. Yeah out here, girls, Lord give 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:00.320 us strength. 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.120 Ooh, it smells great. 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.720 So did you hear they had to cancel his birthday? 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.079 Who's birthday? Oh, Susie, don't start. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.679 They practically had to barricade the White House. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:12.960 Mom. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.800 I don't think protesters have the ability to cancel the 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.079 president's birthday, Susan, as much as you wish they could. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:23.280 Oh my god, she's just being dramatic. Dad as always, Hi. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:28.520 John Jay, Clarence Darrow, Hi Atticus, don't ignore Harmon kill 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:29.960 a brew and Billy Martin. 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.480 Girls, I was just about to say, hello, mom, all right, 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.040 if Doctor Doolittle hour is over, Sally, Susan, your mother 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:37.440 and I. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:38.200 Need to speak with you. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:39.400 What's going on? Dad? 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:42.680 Would you like a burger? 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:43.400 What's wrong? 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:43.840 Daddy? 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:44.880 Are you sick? 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.120 Nothing's wrong? Calm down, Susie. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.640 Well that's a matter of opinion. Uncle Warren wants me 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:51.800 to join him on the bench. 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:57.160 Wait the bench? Are you serious? Can Uncle Warren do that? 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.560 Isn't it up to The President has apparently agreed, my 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:06.800 chief qualification being I'm uncontroversial. It's rather like being picked 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:08.880 to play shortstop at the Twins because I'm the same 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:10.680 shoe size as the previous fellow. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.800 Also that you're a prominent member of a group passing 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:18.680 off cranky, outdated, closed minded, bigoted, paranoid opinions in response 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.160 to positive changes taking place in this country as if 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:25.760 they were genuine ideas, otherwise known as a Republican feel good. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.599 To get that off your chest, Susie, Dad's a judge. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.760 His political party has no bearing hole Sally. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.320 Actually, your father hasn't decided if he's taking the job yet. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.440 Really, why not? 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:39.480 I despise DC Sally. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.520 Okay, so allergies are our biggest concern here. 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:48.040 No, not the weather anyway, this is a family decision. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.360 You and your sisters will be affected, and your poor mother, 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.000 she'll have to leave the dress shop in Rochester. 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.520 None of us gets out of this unharmed. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:01.240 Unharmed. That's a little dramatic. Harry, even for you. I'm 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.720 quite certain there are dress shops in DC, Susie. I 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.720 think we all know where you stand. Sally. You haven't 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:08.920 expressed an opinion yet. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.319 She's obviously for it. Mom, she's dad in a dress. 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:13.160 Shut up. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.200 I don't know, Okay, Well. 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:18.120 No one knows. I'm asking what you think. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.040 And I'm saying I don't know. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.640 I mean, I think it's sort of rich that they 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.600 want you to tell the whole country what to do 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.360 on every conceivable issue, when you can't even tell your 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.600 own daughter what to do when she needs it. 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:32.840 Young lady, what on earth is that supposed to mean? 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:34.280 I don't know. 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:40.120 I'm sorry. I'm proud of you, Daddy, I really am. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:46.080 Come here, Judge, come here, Yes, yes you are, study. 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:04.200 Sarah. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:05.840 I'm grabbing a sandwich next door. 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.800 You want, thanks, Pete. I actually brought from home today, 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.319 trying to cut down on expenses. 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.920 Deb want medthing. Oh and I'm gonna be twenty minutes 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:15.320 late to the bake sale tomorrow. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.120 Oh, just till the whole office be well. 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.640 The idea is to actually sell pastries. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:27.480 Deb, we could use some customers, mister Sims office. I'm sorry, 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.960 there's no missus Walter here, this is mister Sims office. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.240 You have the wrong numbe that's for me. Prom Queen 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:37.520 allah Hi, I told you not to call on this line. Nope, 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.040 do not come here. I'll call you back from the 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.960 payphone across the street. You're in the lobby. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:44.319 What is going on? 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:45.880 B get over here. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:47.440 What's happening? 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:47.720 Dev? 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.880 Doctor Lorry is in the lobby. He's about to be 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.600 arrested again. Yes, he's coming up. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:53.920 Doctor Lorry is coming here. 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.760 Paul together, be okay, we only have a second. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:58.400 He's got two cops on him. He needs time to 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.720 get bail money together so he doesn't spend county. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.040 Oh my god, Oh my god, oh my god, oh 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:03.360 my god. 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:04.640 We're gonna go to jail down. 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:05.680 We're not going to Jay. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:06.440 Can I help? 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:06.760 What? 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:07.800 No? 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:09.760 And stop eavesdropping? 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.480 Deb deb deb? 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.640 Oh? I really I really need your help. 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.800 Doctor Lourie, come here right behind me. 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:21.320 Where should we have him? 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:22.360 The storage closet? 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:22.520 Go? 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:28.760 Where is he? 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.400 Hello, officer the doctor? 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:31.040 Where do you go? 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:31.400 Oh? 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.800 This is a clerical office, but there's a clinic down 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:34.160 the street. 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:35.560 Where are you hiding him? 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:36.000 Who? 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:36.520 Officer? 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:38.080 Lady, don't get cute. 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.600 I'm not really sure what you mean? Girls? Have we 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:41.520 seen a doctor? 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:42.720 What do I don't know? 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.000 We haven't seen anyone. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.400 You you in the Phillip pink? What's your name? 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:46.920 Me? 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.280 I'm nobody, I said, what's your name? 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.840 She's no one, she doesn't know anything. 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.040 I'm Sarah Weddington. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:54.960 Where did the doctor go? 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:55.800 Missus Weddington? 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.240 Lying to a police officer can get you in a 0:14:58.280 --> 0:14:59.080 lot of trouble. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.120 Dear, I really don't know what you're referring to, Officer. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.920 This is a clerical office. I haven't seen any doctor. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:05.120 Give me your keys. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.800 We're checking every office, closet and utility room in this 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:09.560 damn place. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.120 We'll find him, of course, Officer happy to once you 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:13.960 show me your warrant. 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.000 Don't get cute, sweetie. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:17.760 I don't need a warrant. 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:18.400 I think. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.960 I mean you don't have a warrant, which makes this 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.960 an unauthorized search of private property. I can't give you 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:25.480 my keys, but I can't see you out. 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:32.040 Like I said, cute, I find my own way out. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:36.720 I hope I did, all right, Dad? 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.320 You see that last night on the Bold Ones or something. 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.720 Good news is these have got to be the cleanest 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.920 returns I've ever seen. You're not a risk taker, Judge 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.760 black Man. Then used to be what's this houseworth? 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:01.200 Judge? 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:02.960 Why in the market? Agent Johnson? 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.520 Judge Blackman, please, why would. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.760 You possibly need to know the value of my house? 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:08.480 Sir? 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.800 The more questions you ask, the longer this background check 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.520 is gonna take. You gotta be transparent. If you're nominated 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.960 to the Supreme Court, your middle school transcripts will become 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:18.600 public record. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:23.200 I must have missed that part of Article three UM 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:28.800 twenty five thousand. Maybe okay, and please, hey, be careful 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.240 with those papers. They're in a very specific order. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.280 Laddie. Now you're in for it. Agent in here, Susan, 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.040 what is all this? 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.600 This, Susan, is a colonoscopy posing as a background check. 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.880 Say hello to agent Johnson. If he stays another fifteen minutes, 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:46.960 he'll know more about me than your mother does. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:48.840 It's so said that that's. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.640 True, all due respect, Judge, you're getting off easy. Our 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:57.200 vetting process is usually much more invasive. But there seems 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:58.440 to be some urgency here. 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:00.280 Yeah, because Nixon blue with. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.840 His first two nominees, Susan, he did dun. 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:08.280 The seat's been vacant a year, so your Susan the youngest. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.600 This actually saves me a trip if you have a moment. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.159 Absolutely out of the question, dud, It's okay, my daughters 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:15.959 are off limits. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:16.800 Agent Johnson. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:18.600 Really not how this works, Judge. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.760 All right, Dad, what do you need to know? 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:21.680 I have here? 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.760 You went to work for the Naval Medical Research Institute 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.600 after college, that's right, but you've since left. 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:29.680 Okay, I see where this is going. 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.480 What does this have to do with my nomination? 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.720 You and three female colleagues have filed the class action suit. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:35.480 Yes, we have. 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:37.640 Again, this has nothing to do with how I would 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:38.679 rule from the bench. 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:43.480 Judge, I'll due respect. You don't see how this is relevant. 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.760 I certainly do not take my word for it, Judge, 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:47.920 it is. 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.679 If I can just say something, my daughter being a 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.960 party in a lawsuit has no bearing. 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:54.800 It's who she's suing, Judge. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.440 Who she's suing is im material. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.560 She's suing the United States Navy. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:04.119 It's about sexual discrimination. They treated us differently, They treated 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:04.760 us terribly. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.000 You've also joined anti war protests, sometimes violent ones, on 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:08.760 several occasions. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.679 Miss Blackman, Yeah, who has it? 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.040 Okay, we're done here. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.240 Miss Your father's being considered for a position that would 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.520 make him one of the most powerful people in government 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.639 with a lifetime tenure. If I didn't ask about your 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:24.200 apparent distaste for our country, I wouldn't be doing my job. 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.640 My distaste for our country. 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:39.000 Out of my house, Agent Johnson, now judge out, Well, 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.400 that actually went better than I thought it would. 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.359 You can do this there. Come on, deep breath, deep breath, life, 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.400 isn't everything? Get out of the car. 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:14.280 Come on, nothing from your friend at the Dallas Morning 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.200 News be I mean, how can they not want to 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.119 report about doctors being persecuted like this? 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:21.680 I stopped ask him when he said he'd need to 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:25.000