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Chapter One: The Primary
1. Adam Liptak and Maggie Haberman, “Inside the White House’s Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening,” New York Times, June 29, 2018, A1.
2. Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ___ (2015).
3. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).
4. Jeffrey Toobin (@JeffreyToobin), “Anthony Kennedy is retiring. Abortion will be illegal in twenty states in 18 months. #SCOTUS,” Twitter, June 27, 2018, 11:06 a.m., https://twitter.com/jeffreytoobin/status/1012034512312832001.
5. Adam Liptak and Maggie Haberman, “Inside the White House’s Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening,” New York Times, June 29, 2018, A1.
6. Neera Tanden (@neeratanden), “Just to state this: Justice Kennedy’s son gave a billion dollar loan to Trump when no one would give him a dime, and Justice Kennedy has been ruling in favor of the Trump Administration position for 2 years as the Court decides 5-4 case after 5-4 case,” Twitter, June 29, 2018, 4:54 a.m., https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1012665534297624577.
7. Salvador Rizzo, “The thinly sourced theories about Trump’s loans and Justice Kennedy’s son,” Washington Post, July 12, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/07/12/untangling-the-links-between-trump-deutsche-bank-and-justice-kennedys-son/; Katie Akin, “Did Justice Kennedy quit due to family ties to Trump and Russia?” Politifact, July 10, 2018, https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jul/10/blog-posting/did-justice-kennedy-quit-due-family-ties-trump-and/.
8. Ian Millhiser, “Justice Kennedy deserves this nasty, unflinching sendoff,” ThinkProgress, https://thinkprogress.org/kennedy-was-a-bad-justice-76e464024d78/.
9. Chris Matthews, “Justice Kennedy Announces Retirement From Supreme Court,” MSNBC Live with Katy Tur, MSNBC, June 27, 2018, https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20180627_180000_MSNBC_Live_With_Katy_Tur/start/2106/end/2166.
10. Mitch McConnell, “Senator McConnell on Justice Kennedy Retirement and Replacement,” C-SPAN, video file, June 28, 2018, https://www.c-span.org/video/?447582-3/senator-mcconnell-justice-kennedy-retirement-replacement.
11. “SCOTUS Agrees with Kavanaugh,” Senate RPC, July 24, 2018, https://www.rpc.senate.gov/policy-papers/scotus-agrees-with-kavanaugh.
12. Jan Crawford Greenburg, Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court (New York: Penguin, 2007), 61.
13. Jeffrey Toobin, “Holding Court,” New Yorker, March 19, 2012, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/03/26/holding-court.
14. Dan Burns, “Online bettors see Kavanaugh as likely U.S. Supreme Court nominee,” Reuters, June 27, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kennedy-bets/online-bettors-see-kavanaugh-as-likely-u-s-supreme-court-nominee-idUSKBN1JN350.
15. Michael D. Shear and Maggie Haberman, “Trump Interviews 4 Supreme Court Prospects in Rush to Name Replacement,” New York Times, July 2, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/us/politics/trump-supreme-court-nomination.html.
16. Michael D. Shear and Thomas Kaplan, “Court Vacancy in Election Year Jolts the Parties,” New York Times, June 29, 2018.
17. Ruth Graham, “Amy Coney Barrett Is Allegedly a Member of a Religious Group That’s Been Called a ‘Cult,’ ” Slate, July 3, 2018, https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/07/amy-coney-barretts-alleged-religious-group-people-of-praise-what-is-it.html.
18. JCN, “Judicial Crisis Network Launches #AnotherGreatJustice, a Seven-Figure Ad-Buy on Supreme Court Vacancy,” Judicial Crisis Network, June 27, 2018, https://judicialnetwork.com/in-the-news/judicial-crisis-network-launches-anothergreatjustice-a-seven-figure-ad-buy-on-supreme-court-vacancy/.
19. Edith Roberts, “Potential nominee profile: Brett Kavanaugh,” SCOTUSblog, June 28, 2018, https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/06/potential-nominee-profile-brett-kavanaugh/.
20. Christopher Jacobs, “How Potential SCOTUS Pick Brett Kavanaugh Wrote a Roadmap For Saving Obamacare,” The Federalist, July 2, 2018, http://thefederalist.com/2018/07/02/potential-scotus-pick-brett-kavanaugh-wrote-roadmap-saving-obamacare/.
21. David French, “Brett Kavanaugh Is an Excellent Judge, but Is He the Best Choice?,” National Review, July 5, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-potential-pick/.
22. Sarah E. Pitlyk, “Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Impeccable Record of Constitutional Conservatism,” National Review, July 3, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/judge-brett-kavanaughs-impeccable-record-of-constitutional-conservatism/.
23. Ed Whelan, “Contra Ben Shapiro on Judge Kavanaugh,” National Review, June 28, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/contra-ben-shapiro-on-judge-kavanaugh/.
24. Ben Shapiro, “THE RUN-DOWN: Here’s What You Need To Know About Trump’s Top 5 Possible Nominees,” The Daily Wire, June 27, 2018, https://www.dailywire.com/news/32411/run-down-heres-what-you-need-know-about-trumps-top-ben-shapiro.
25. Richard Wolf, “Basketball, Popeyes, 2 Live Crew: The year Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh clerked for Anthony Kennedy,” USA Today, August 30, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/30/brett-kavanaugh-neil-gorsuch-learned-supreme-court-ropes-together/1050836002/