I Have to Ask

I Have to Ask: The Jason Zengerle Edition

Why the Trump administration has worked more closely with the Federalist Society than any conservative president.

Brett Kavanaugh raising his right hand.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images.

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Jason Zengerle is a political correspondent for GQ magazine and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, where last month he published a piece entitled “How the Trump Administration Is Remaking the Courts.” Jordan Weissmann, Slate’s senior economics correspondent, sits in for Isaac Chotiner this week.

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Twitter: @IHaveToAskPod

Podcast production by Max Jacobs.