Alex Wagner on “The Steal”: How the Right Spent 40 Years Building a Supreme Court Majority, and What Comes Next
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Rick Wilson sits down with MS NOW's ALEX WAGNER about her new book, THE STEAL: Four Right-Wing Hard-Liners, One Republican Presidency, and the Raid on America's Courts. Wagner tells the story as a heist, from Reagan-era conservatives like Ed Meese, Paul Weyrich, Joe Coors, and Robert Bork to the Federalist Society, Leonard Leo's money machine, and the patient, decades-long institution-building that made originalism dominant. Then Rick and Alex dig into what's next: will Alito retire, who might Trump nominate, and what could a Democratic Senate do about court reform?•••••Find Alex on her podcast "Runaway Country,” How the Hell with Alex Wagner on Substack, and MSNOW as a Senior Political Analyst.Rick Wilson is on X @TheRickWilson, Bluesky @TheRickWilson.bsky.social, and Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. More from LP at www.lincolnproject.us and on X @ProjectLincoln.
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