In 2017, we launched slow burn to help process Donald Trump's presidency.
Everyone was talking about impeachment, so we looked back at Watergate.
“Now we're 10 seasons in, and Donald Trump is president.”
Again, somehow everything seems worse. Trump has accumulated power in so many destructive ways, but especially in one place. At the end of the day, our policy as a nation is largely decided at the Supreme Court by the Supreme Court. Those high court decisions are changing all of our lives.
“The U.S. Supreme Court has reshaped the country's legal landscape on abortion, guns, religion,”
and more.
There's a reason why the Supreme Court has become so powerful, and that's the story we're
going to tell in slow burn, becoming Justice Gorsuch. I take an oath to protect and defend the constitution of the United States, and I take it pretty darn seriously.
“Neil Gorsuch is certainly not the most famous justice on the bench, but he's the key”
to understanding the current court. He is the most unpredictable vote, and it's not really a close call. Like he is the Justice most likely to be a true wild card. He gets nominated. You realize who it is, what happens from there.
I thought something that I can't say, that I shouldn't say. You can say it. In my mind, I thought, "Oh, it's that asshole." Will find out where Justice Gorsuch came from, and I'll talk with people who knew him in his formative years.
I always felt like Neil could pull off his face and underneath would be like some horrible
scary alien. Will look at the influence Justice Gorsuch has in this moment, including his surprising pushback against Donald Trump, the president who nominated him. It's a story that will shape America for years, even lifetimes to come. I'm Susan McEuse, join me for Slowburn, becoming Justice Gorsuch.
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