Amy Coney Barrett's Week In Liberal Wonderland

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, once a Roe-killing conservative darling, triggered the Trump faithful with a post-speech side-eye and ruling against the president who appointed her. On this episode, host and Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones, along with executive editor Claire Howorth and Hive editor Michael Calderone, explore Barrett’s path to the high court, her judicial philosophy and faith, and the right's re-framing of RBG’s replacement as a “DEI” hire. Plus, legal affairs contributor Cristian Farias joins the show to break down how Donald Trump and Elon Musk are causing constitutional chaos—and what role Barrett, and her fellow justices, could play in reining them in.

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0:00.0	Claire and Michael, I love playing this game with you each week.
0:03.6	What ideas do you have for the first draft of today's headline?
0:08.9	Who really knows? This jabbo lulls and norms through the wood chipper in the time of ACB.
0:16.1	That's going to be a deep cut for people for listeners.
0:20.0	Still not quite sure I know what a jabo is, but I'm going to look at some images.
0:24.6	I feel like you look great in one, Radiga, and you too, Michael.
0:26.9	Says you.
0:27.8	All right.
0:28.7	Michael.
0:29.8	Doesn't make any sense.
0:31.2	ACB as DEI.
0:33.7	I was going there, too.
0:36.0	RBG, ACB, and DEI.
0:37.6	It needs a second beat somehow.
0:40.1	IDK.
0:42.2	M-A-G-A.
0:46.4	Welcome to Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair, a podcast about power and the people who love it.
0:55.6	I'm Radica Jones, the editor of Vanity Fair, and I'm joined by executive editor Claire Howorth. Hi, Radica. And Hive editor Michael
1:01.5	Calderham. Hey, Radica. I want to start today's episode with an image that has unfortunately
1:09.6	really stuck with me, and that is Elon Musk,
1:12.7	waving a chainsaw around at CPAC a few weeks ago.
1:15.6	This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.
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