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5-4 x Know Your Enemy

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The Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch were political theatre, writes Julian Zelizer. He says it was a reckoning moment for conservative legal thinkers who didn't know how to sell their ideology out loud in the public eye. The judge's refusal to answer questions about his views on issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage is one of the lessons he learned from that experience.

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