much as Matthew Braun and Julia Habrecht. Thank you for listening to my stories and for unending hospitality. I thank God he brought them into my life. Thank you to Mary Diamond Stirewalt for pushing me to do broadcast work, teaching me how to do it, and for doing so much with so little credit and to Liz Sheld for a little bit of everything.
Thank you also to my parents, Larry and Carolyn Ziegler, and my siblings, Kirsten Pratt and Erich Ziegler, for putting up with me throughout my challenging adolescence, and inculcating in me a love of the Constitution. I will never forget watching the Thomas hearings with my mother while traveling through California that fall. My parents’ conversations and debates stayed with me, as did their gracious giving of time to discuss politics, economics, and, most importantly, our Christian faith. Thank you also to my aunts and uncles, cousins, and in-laws, particularly Bill and Kathy Hemingway, for their unflinching support. A special word of thanks for my friends Erica Beeney Wyatt and Patrice Wittrig Stilley, whose intelligence inspired me and challenged me to reach new heights.
Because of an implausibly short timeline, my husband and children spent months without my full participation in home life. My children took to sleeping in my office to spend time with me, which simultaneously wracked me with guilt and gave me such comfort on long nights. Mark, as he has for nearly thirteen years, kept us all healthy and happy. He has always been my biggest supporter, and I am thankful God blessed me with such an amazing head to our household. The love in my heart for him is inexpressible. When Carrie and I began this project, Mark helped us envision what it could be, encouraged us to emphasize storytelling, and pushed us over the finish line.
About the Authors
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway is a senior editor at The Federalist and a contributor to Fox News, where she regularly appears on Special Report with Bret Baier. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, CNN, Claremont Review of Books, National Review, Christianity Today, Federal Times, Radio & Records, and many other publications. Mollie was a Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow in 2004, a Lincoln Fellow of the Claremont Institute in 2014, and the Eugene C. Pulliam Distinguished Fellow in Journalism at Hillsdale College in 2016. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Colorado and serves on the board of the News Literacy Project and the Fund for American Studies’ Institute on Political Journalism.
Carrie Severino is chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, the most important outside group advancing the Kavanaugh nomination. An expert on the confirmation process, Mrs. Severino has been extensively quoted in the media and regularly appears on television, including MSNBC, FOX, CNN, C-SPAN, and ABC’s This Week. Carrie has written and spoken on a wide range of judicial issues, particularly the constitutional limits on government, the federal nomination process, and state judicial selection. She has testified before Congress on constitutional issues and briefed senators on judicial nominations, and she regularly files briefs in high-profile Supreme Court cases. Before joining JCN, she was an Olin-Searle Fellow and a Dean’s Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center. She was previously a law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University, her master’s degree in linguistics from Michigan State University, and her law degree, cum laude, from Harvard University.
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Notes
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., 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