Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court

by Mollie Hemingway

  Colloton, Steven, 55, 59

  Color of Change, 111

  Commerce Clause, 42, 45, 303

  Concerned Women for America (CWA), 73, 151, 173, 273, 278

  Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, 292

  Conscience of a Conservative, 237

  Constitutional Accountability Center, 70

  Conway, Kellyanne, 58, 140, 184, 273

  Coons, Christopher, 101–2, 164, 188, 235, 238–39, 241–44, 246, 259

  Cooper, Anderson, 187

  Cooper, Chuck, 55

  Corker, Robert, 87, 135

  Cornyn, John, 101, 145, 234–35, 244, 250, 272

  Corrigan, Ed, 83

  Cotton, Tom, 50

  Crawford, Jan, 169

  Cruz, Fiola, 179

  Cruz, Ted, 31–33, 48–49, 54–55, 57, 86, 108, 179, 242

  C-SPAN, 195, 200, 241, 274

  D

  Daigle, Lauren, 182

  Danforth, John, 221

  Daniels, Stormy, 162

  Daschle, Tom, 79

  Daum, Gary, 182

  Davis, Mike, 102, 173, 187, 190

  Davis, Sean, 173

  D.C. Circuit, 7–10, 19, 28, 38, 43, 52, 79–81, 96, 105

  Dean, John, 115

  DeMint, Jim, 50–51

  Democratic National Committee, 5

  Demos, 77

  Denhollander, Rachael, 304

  Dickerson, John, 47

  Dictionary Act, 297

  District of Columbia v. Heller, 36

  Donaldson, Annie, 2, 65, 138

  Donnelly, Joe, 17, 68

  Drudge Report, 159

  Duca, Lauren, 77

  Duck, Jennifer, 102

  Dumas, Ariel, 278

  Duncan, Kyle, 54

  Durbin, Dick, 72, 98, 101–2, 123

  E

  Earthjustice, 70

  Eid, Allison, 54–55

  Eighth Circuit, 31

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 33, 36, 38, 45

  Eleventh Circuit, 48, 80

  Emily’s List v. Federal Election Commission, 92

  End Citizens United, 70

  Engel, Steve, 2, 232

  Engel v. Vitale, 35

  Environmental Protection Agency, 60

  Estrada, Miguel, 79–80, 232

  Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), 148

  F

  Facebook, 57, 146, 152, 201, 207, 215, 258, 265, 288, 290–92

  Fallon, Brian, 11, 231, 293

  Farrow, Ronan, 126, 159–60, 165–66, 181, 257, 262

  FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 72, 114, 123–24, 128, 136, 138, 142, 144, 154, 161, 164, 180–81, 183, 186, 197, 220, 222, 226, 229, 231–32, 234, 240–41, 243–46, 250, 253–54, 256, 259, 261–64, 268–69, 271, 290

  Federal Election Commission, 8, 31, 52, 76

  Federalist, 166–67, 173

  Federalist Papers, 108

  Federalist Society, 22, 46–47, 50, 53, 59, 62, 109–10, 136, 149

  Feinstein, Dianne, 11, 91–92, 95–96, 98, 100–2, 114, 117, 121–24, 127–28, 138, 140, 167, 180, 191, 195, 197, 199, 205, 207, 209, 229, 232, 235, 240–43, 247, 249

  Feminist Majority Foundation, 207

  Ferguson, Mike, 22

  Fifth Circuit, 55, 80

  First Amendment, 4, 14, 35, 92, 111

  Fishburne, William, 177

  FiveThirtyEight, 286

  Flake, Jeff, 29, 87, 119, 135, 151, 194, 202, 209–10, 237–39, 241–46, 263, 273, 278, 287

  Ford, Christine Blasey, 129–31, 133, 135, 138–40, 142–146, 148–50, 152–57, 161, 167, 177, 180–81, 186, 193–216, 218–19, 222–23, 226, 228–33, 238–39, 241, 248–52, 262–69, 275, 291, 293, 304

  Ford, Gerald, 28, 36

  Fortas, Abe, 36

  Fourth Amendment, 46, 69, 86–87

  Fox News, 22, 71, 139–40, 169, 217, 286

  Francisco, Noel, 119

  Frankfurter, Felix, 102

  Frederickson, Caroline, 109

  Fuller, Melville W., 28

  G

  Gallagher, Maria, 239

  Gang of Fourteen alliance, 80–81, 83

  Garland, Merrick, 6, 8, 29, 57, 72, 88–89, 109

  Generation Progress, 70

  Giffords.org, 70

  Gillibrand, Kirsten, 70

  Gingrich, Newt, 50

  Ginsburg, Douglas, 9, 42

  Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 103, 108, 113, 116, 279, 282, 300, 305

  God Save This Honorable Court, 41, 78

  Goldwater, Barry, 35

  Gore, Al, 44

  Gorsuch, Neil, 4, 6–7, 12, 14, 56, 59–61, 64, 68–69, 72, 82–85, 92, 94, 96, 106, 109, 113, 117, 150, 176, 190, 223, 279–80, 295, 297

  Graham, Lindsey, 81, 86, 107, 232–34, 241, 259, 281, 287

  Grant, Britt, 62

  Grassley, Charles, 1, 5, 30–31, 72, 86, 95–98, 100–2, 106, 113–14, 116, 122, 135–36, 138, 142, 144, 148, 151–54, 167, 173, 180, 183, 186–87, 190, 193, 195–96, 204, 209, 231, 234, 239, 241, 243–47, 259, 276, 278

  Green, Adam, 70

  Greenberger, Marcia D., 79

  Greenhouse, Linda, 42–43, 59

  Greenwald, Glenn, 121

  Grim, Ryan, 121

  Griscom, Tom, 40

  Griswold v. Connecticut, 34–35

  Grohovsky, Julie, 184

  Gruender, Raymond, 55

  Gu, Eugene, 104

  Guardian, 124, 147

  Guthrie, Savannah, 204, 230

  H

  Haake, Garrett, 201

  Halperin, Mark, 32

  Hamdan v. United States, 120

  Hamilton, Alexander, 274, 299

  Hand, Learned, 14

  Handmaid’s Tale, The, 100

  Hannity, Sean, 22

  Hardiman, Thomas, 11, 21, 23, 51, 55, 59–61, 65

  Harlan, John Marshall, 33

  Harris, Kamala, 92, 100–1, 107–8, 115, 138, 189, 199, 201, 235, 240

  Hatch, Orrin, 162, 168, 221, 242

  Hawley, Josh, 284–85

  Health Care for America Now, 111

  Health Care Voter, 111

  Heilemann, John, 32

  Heitkamp, Heidi, 17, 68

  Henneberger, Melinda, 49

  Heritage Foundation, 50–51

  Hill, Anita, 44, 128, 135, 150, 164, 197, 304

  Hirono, Mazie, 101, 119, 144, 160, 163, 199, 201, 235, 254, 287

  Hogue, Ilyse, 70

  Holt, Lester, 230

  Hostin, Sunny, 202

  House Judiciary Committee, 285, 287

  HuffPost, 137, 147

  Hyde-Smith, Cindy, 274

  I

  Ingraham, Laura, 57, 127–28

  Intercept, 121–23, 125, 130, 136

  Internal Revenue Code, 109

  Iran-Contra affair, 41, 72

  Ireland, Patricia, 43

  J

  Jim Crow segregation, 77

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 36

  Jones, Doug, 68

  Jones Day, 31, 50–51, 60

  Judge, Mark, 131, 147, 150, 155, 160–61, 177, 181–83, 193, 198, 204, 206, 231, 239, 267

  Judge, Patty, 30

  Judicial Crisis Network (JCN), 11, 73–74, 109–10

  Judicial Procedures Reform Bill, 301

  Judiciary Act of 1869, 301

  Julian, Emperor, 163

  K

  Kagan, Elena, 66–67, 91, 94, 96, 233, 279, 281, 303

  Kaplan, Joel, 290

  Kaplan, Laura, 223

  Kaplan, Laura Cox, 291–92

  Kasich, John, 31

  Kasowitz, Benson & Torres, 107–8

  Katz, Debra, 121–23, 126, 131, 140, 142, 152–55, 196, 207, 209, 252, 266

  Kavanaugh, Ashley, 8, 16, 18–20, 25, 64–65, 78, 86, 99, 129, 156–57, 169–70, 179, 182, 219–20, 223, 226, 228, 234, 269–70, 276, 282, 291

  Kelly, Jane, 31

  Kelly, John, 3

  Kelly, Megyn, 201, 204

  Kennedy, Anthony, 1–9, 11–14, 16–17, 21, 25, 42, 52, 72, 76, 88, 173, 265, 275, 280
, 282, 305

  Kennedy, Edward (Ted), 38–41, 64, 80, 150, 235

  Kennedy, Florynce, 43

  Kennedy, John, 116, 142

  Kennedy, Mary, 281

  Kerr, Orin, 75

  Kerry, John, 49

  Kessler, Eric, 111

  Kethledge, Ray, 8, 11, 18, 21–22, 55, 60–61, 65

  Ketterer, Dennis, 185

  Keyser, Leland, 155, 157, 207, 214, 249–50, 263–69

  Kimmel, Jimmy, 172

  King, John, 184

  Kirk, Mark, 29

  Klobuchar, Amy, 92, 106, 115, 234–35, 247, 287, 297

  Koch network, 176

  Kozinski, Alex, 77, 97, 121

  Kupec, Kerri, 76, 118, 140

  Kyl, Jon, 87–88, 92–93

  L

  Lambda Legal, 70

  Lamy, Kendra Barkoff, 195

  Larsen, Joan, 55

  Lawrence v. Texas, 6

  Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, 70, 111

  League of Conservation Voters, 70, 109, 111

  League of Women Voters, 110

  Leahy, Patrick, 93, 102, 105–6, 205, 231, 287

  Lear, Norman, 150

  Ledbetter, Lilly, 298

  Lee, Mike, 57, 83, 86, 102, 238, 263

  Lee, Thomas, 53, 55

  Lenkner, Travis, 14

  Leo, Leonard, 22, 27, 50, 93, 136

  Lewinsky, Monica, 159

  Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, 298

  Loftus, Elizabeth, 211–12

  Ludington, Chad, 254

  Lyons, Derek, 282

  M

  MacCallum, Martha, 169, 219

  Madaleno, Richard S., Jr., 177

  Majority Forward, 111

  Malcolm, John, 51

  Manchin, Joe, 17, 68, 91, 271–72, 286

  Mandery, Evan, 109

  Mansfield, Edward, 57

  Marbury v. Madison, 103

  Marcus, David, 166

  Marshall, John, 282

  Marshall, Thurgood, 43, 128, 305

  Martinez, Roman, 14, 23

  Matthews, Chris, 6

  Mayer, Jane, 126, 159–60, 165, 167, 181, 262

  McCain, John, 69, 87, 205, 237

  McCaleb, Meghan, 127, 236

  McCaleb, Scott, 125, 236

  McCaskill, Claire, 68, 92

  McConnell, Mitch, 5–6, 17, 21–23, 27–30, 47, 81–84, 86, 91, 93, 135–36, 151, 164, 169, 243, 245, 246, 261–62, 271–72, 279–81, 285, 287

  McGahn, Don, 1–3, 8–9, 17–18, 22–23, 31, 46–48, 50–54, 56, 58, 60–61, 65, 83, 85–86, 92–93, 122, 129, 131, 138, 140, 170, 217–20, 222–23, 231, 234–35, 243, 245–46, 262, 280–82, 294

  McLean, Monica, 205, 263–64

  McNally, Edward, 108

  Meese, Edwin, III, 37, 41–42

  Merkley, Jeff, 70, 115

  #MeToo movement, 20, 136, 159, 163, 175, 201, 262

  Michel, Chris, 24, 76, 120, 218

  Miers, Harriet, 45, 63, 67, 174

  Milano, Alyssa, 71, 77, 196

  Millhiser, Ian, 6

  Miranda, Christina King, 146–47

  Miranda, Manuel, 105–6

  Miranda v. Arizona, 35

  Mitchell, Andrea, 230

  Mitchell, Rachel, 194, 199–208, 228–30, 248–50

  Moran, Jerry, 29

  Moreno, Federico, 57

  Morrisey, Patrick, 286

  Mother Jones, 110

  MoveOn, 70

  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 78

  MSNBC, 6, 146–47, 184, 201, 206, 208, 210

  Mueller, Robert, 7, 72, 107

  Murkowski, Lisa, 17, 60, 70, 86, 96, 119, 135, 209–10, 243, 245, 271–72, 276–77, 287, 300

  Murray, Claire, 65, 76, 118, 274

  My Grandfather’s Son, 222

  N

  Nadler, Jerry, 285, 287

  Nance, Penny, 173–75

  NARAL, 67, 70, 100, 300

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 70–71, 100, 110–11

  National Center for Transgender Equality, 70

  National LGBTQ Task Force, 70

  National Partnership for Women and Families, 70

  National Public Radio, 128, 147

  National Security Agency, 86, 121

  National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, 39

  National Women’s Law Center, 70, 79

  NBC News, 101, 140, 147, 188, 201, 230, 253

  Ness, Debra, 70

  NeverTrump movement, 56, 69

  New Deal, 296, 301

  New Republic, 172

  Newsday, 128

  Newsom, Kevin, 62

  New Venture Fund, 111

  New Yorker, 126–30, 159–61, 165–66, 181, 187, 255, 257, 262

  New York Times, 5, 11, 22–23, 30, 42, 59–60, 68, 72–73, 80, 93, 152, 166–67, 171, 177, 194, 250, 254–55, 258, 284

  9/11 (September 10, 2001), 19, 112, 157

  Ninth Circuit, 42, 77

  Nixon, Richard, 36, 38, 42

  NPR–PBS News-Hour–Marist poll, 284

  O

  Obama, Barack, 6, 28–31, 47, 52–53, 57, 67, 69, 77, 80–81, 94, 110, 115, 123, 175, 283–84, 296, 302

  Obama, Michelle, 284

  Obamacare, 13, 42, 45, 48–50, 91, 177

  Obergefell opinion, 275

  O’Connor, Sandra Day, 37, 44–45, 80, 305

  Oldham, Andy, 54

  Omidyar, Pierre, 121

  Owen, Priscilla, 80

  P

  Packwood, Robert, 235

  Paoletta, Mark, 60

  Parker, Ashley, 210

  Paul, Rand, 69, 86

  Peck, Gregory, 40, 73

  Pelosi, Nancy, 247

  Pence, Mike, 21–22, 60–61, 278

  People for the American Way (PAW), 40, 70, 73, 150

  Phelps, Timothy, 128

  Pitlyk, Sarah, 16

  Plame, Valerie, 72

  Planned Parenthood, 70, 77, 104, 300

  Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 6

  Podesta, John, 69

  Politico, 84, 101, 107, 109, 127, 146, 173, 185

  Pompeo, Mike, 2

  Portman, Rob, 87–88, 103, 162, 245

  Powell, Lewis F., 36, 38, 282, 305

  Presidential Records Act, 97

  Price, Tom, 50

  Priebus, Reince, 58, 60, 62

  Progressive Change Campaign Committee, 70

  ProPublica, 75

  Pryor, William, 48, 50, 55, 59–61, 80

  Przybyla, Heidi, 154, 255

  R

  Raju, Manu, 240

  Ramirez, Deborah, 159–62, 164–67, 183–84, 186–87, 229, 239, 241, 245–46, 253–58

  Rasor, Elizabeth, 160–61

  Reading Law, 53

  Reagan, Ronald, 1, 27, 35, 37–42, 44, 60, 72–74, 94, 305

  Rehnquist, William, 36–38, 40–41, 44, 94, 150, 240

  Reid, Harry, 30, 63, 81

  Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 297–98

  Reno, Janet, 72

  Republican National Committee, 58

  Rice v. Cayetano, 119

  Richards, Cecile, 77

  Roberts, Cokie, 145, 202

  Roberts, John, 1, 18, 32, 44, 48, 63, 65, 89–90, 94, 96, 279, 303

  Roberts, Owen, 302

  Roe v. Wade, 4, 6, 34, 36, 58, 60, 70, 88–90, 97, 272, 276, 284, 300

  Roll Call, 107

  Roney, Eva, 15

  Roosevelt, Franklin, 301–2

  Rosenstein, Rod, 244

  Rove, Karl, 23

  Rubenfeld, Jed, 147

  Rubin, Jennifer, 107, 153, 172

  Rubio, Marco, 31

  Rudman, Warren, 43

  Rule of Five, 34

  Running Start, 292–93

  Rutledge, Annabelle, 273

  Ryan, Margaret, 57

  S

  Sandberg, Sheryl, 291

  Sanders, Bernie, 51, 70, 246

  Sanders, Sarah, 140–41

  Sasse, Ben, 35, 142, 262�
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  Scalia, Antonin, 6, 12, 14, 27–31, 33, 37, 46–47, 50, 53, 59, 87, 103, 116–17, 281, 299, 312

  Scalia, Christopher, 152

  Scalia, Maureen, 47, 59, 281

  Schumer, Chuck, 29, 68, 79, 84, 91, 98, 111, 152, 164, 183, 224, 232

  Scott, Rick, 286

  Scott, Tim, 90

  Seidman, Ricki, 150, 231

  Senate Judiciary Committee, 1, 11, 17–18, 20, 23, 28, 79–80, 90, 96–98, 101, 105–6, 115, 122, 125, 144, 146, 181, 185, 188, 203, 209, 213, 224, 235, 239, 246, 253–54, 256, 262–64, 266–68

  Senate Majority PAC, 111

  Serfaty, Sunlen, 151, 239

  Service Employees International Union, 70

  Sessions, Jeff, 7, 58, 118

  Seventh Circuit, 7, 21, 48

  Shah, Raj, 76, 104, 121, 129, 137, 140–41

  Shapiro, Ben, 16

  Shine, Bill, 140, 169

  Short, Marc, 60

  Shrier, Abigail, 147

  Sierra Club, 110–11

  Silberman, Laurence, 28, 59

  Sixteen Thirty Fund, 110–11, 195

  Sixth Circuit, 8, 11

  SKDKnickerbocker, 195

  Slate, 254, 293

  Smash Racism, 179

  Smith, George, 43

  Smith, Tina, 70

  Smyth, Patrick “P.J.,” 147, 250

  Snowden, Edward, 121

  Soros, George, 69

  Sotomayor, Sonia, 67, 233, 279, 281

  Sousa, Marcelo Rebelo de, 2

  Souter, David, 32, 43–44, 46, 50, 65

  Specter, Arlen, 90

  Spiegel, David, 212

  Sports Illustrated, 304

  Starr, Kenneth, 15, 95, 226

  Steinem, Gloria, 44

  Stelter, Brian, 139

  Stephanopoulos, George, 49, 201

  Stevens, John Paul, 36, 270

  Stewart, Jimmy, 78

  Stewart, Potter, 33, 37

  Stras, David, 54–55

  Strassel, Kimberly, 155

  Sullivan, Margaret, 169

  Sunstein, Cass R., 79

  Sununu, John, 43, 46–47

  Susan B. Anthony List (SBA), 74, 176

  Swetnick, Julie, 162, 181–88, 229, 239, 245, 251–54

  Sykes, Diane, 48, 50, 55, 59–60

  T

  Talley, Brett, 65, 120–21, 138

  Tanden, Neera, 5, 69

  Tapper, Jake, 273

  Tea Party Patriots (TPP), 74, 175

  Teen Vogue, 77

  Tenth Circuit, 6, 56

  Tester, Jon, 286

  Thapar, Amul, 11, 17, 57, 59

  ThinkProgress, 6

  Third Circuit, 11, 32, 45, 51

  Thomas, Clarence, 32, 43–44, 60, 79, 128, 135–36, 156, 164, 168, 180, 190, 199, 220–22, 235, 279–81, 304–5

  Tillis, Thom, 98, 101, 222, 244

  Time, 23, 105

  Todd, Chuck, 67, 201, 230

  Toobin, Jeffrey, 5, 39, 204, 230

  Totenberg, Nina, 128

  Tribe, Laurence, 41, 43, 78–79

  Trump, Donald, 2–3, 5–6, 9, 12, 20–21, 25, 31, 48, 51, 55, 64–65, 71–72, 87, 93, 107, 113, 131, 135, 138–40, 145, 150, 154, 174, 177, 179, 217, 225, 230, 232, 237, 261, 280, 294, 304