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What steps are involved in a Supreme Court confirmation process and are any optional? What do we know about Amy Coney Barrett and Barbara Lagoa, reportedly two of the top contenders to be nominated? Can Democrats pack the Supreme Court? And what lessons did the left and right learn from the Kavanaugh hearings? John Malcolm, who heads the Meese Legal Center at The Heritage Foundation, joins the podcast to discuss all this and more.
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Here is the farewell to updates from Moment.js.
Would you take a nice bonus today for a pay cut in the future? Stripe is offering its employees that option, spurred by an exodus of developers from dense urban areas.
A big thanks to Jim Mischel, who was our lifeboat badge winner of the week.
Amanda Holmes reads Nissim Ezekiel’s poem, “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T. S.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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*note that this episode was recorded before RBG's death and the resulting tenfold increase in existential doom feelings*
If you're a keen listener, you might remember last time we had Prof. Randall Eliason on, he teased his forthcoming Great Courses Course! Well, it has now forth-come. Here's his new course! It's on White Collar Criminal Law, and boy does that sound relevant to.. *gestures broadly at the entire current administration*.
In the first segment we answer whether or not Trump could be charged with manslaughter for all the slaughtering of man he did by lying about COVID-19.
On the Gist, the pursuit of power through SCOTUS.
In the interview, Mike talks with radio presenter and author, Eric Weiner about his latest book The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers. In it, Weiner opines on the philosophical giants from a place that offers one of the more pleasant environments to philosophize - the railroad. In this travelogue, Weiner discusses their life-enhancing poetry, and explains how their lives were in fact just like ours, except they had more time to think and write than binge on Netflix.
In the spiel, the politicking around Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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