Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court

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🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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With Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court days before the 2020 presidential election, Sen. Mitch McConnell solidified the conservative majority he had been seeking for decades. FRONTLINE tells the inside story of McConnell’s hard-fought effort to transform the nation’s highest court in “Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court,” an updated version of our 2019 film.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audio Cast.
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0:09.0	with the BBC, I'm not a monster, available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:15.0	Right now, here's Supreme Revenge, Battle for the Courts.
0:43.0	A Supreme Court takeover, 30 years in the making, it is a system that has become toxic.
0:50.0	And behind the scenes, one powerful Republican Senator.
0:54.0	Mitch McConnell is a tactical genius.
0:56.0	He has succeeded in establishing a conservative court for the next couple of decades at least.
1:01.0	Now on Frontline, we're living in the air of the McConnell Court now.
1:05.0	Supreme Revenge, Battle for the Courts.
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1:24.0	Major support is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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2:10.0	This is a Fox News Alert, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87.
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