The FRONTLINE Interviews:
Supreme Revenge
Our Sources. On the Record. At Your Fingertips.
FRONTLINE conducted more than three dozen in-depth interviews for the original version of Supreme Revenge, broadcast in May 2019. To update the film for November 2020's Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court, following the selection of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, filmmakers went back to eight of our original sources and sat down with two new sources for fresh interviews. You can find them in this collection of 49 interviews with U.S. Senators and staff, White House advisers, leading journalists, activists and legal scholars. These interviews are part of FRONTLINE's Transparency Project, an interactive archive that lets you explore hours of insights, analysis and stories behind our films.
Interviews
Nan Aron
Second interview with the President, Alliance for Justice
Video
Nan Aron
President, Alliance for Justice
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Michael Avery
Co-Author, The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals
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Peter Baker
Chief White House Correspondent, The New York Times
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Steve Bannon
Former Trump Adviser
Video
Jeff Blattner
Former Senate Judiciary Committee Staff Member
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Richard Blumenthal
U.S. Senator (D-CT) and Senate Judiciary Committee Member
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Carol Moseley Braun
D-Illinois
Video
Ethan Bronner
Author, Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America
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Susan Collins
U.S. Senator (R-ME)
Video
Kellyanne Conway
Counselor to President Trump
Video
Tom Daschle
Former U.S. Senator (D-SD)
Video
Jim DeMint
Former President, Heritage Foundation
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Dick Durbin
U.S. Senator (D-IL)
Video
Jeff Flake
Second Interview with Former U.S. Senator (R-AZ) and Judiciary Committee Member
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Jeff Flake
Former U.S. Senator (R-AZ) and Judiciary Committee Member
Video
Mark Gitenstein
Former Chief Counsel to the Judiciary Committee
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Jack Goldsmith
Law Professor and Former Assistant Attorney General
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Jamie Gorelick
Former Deputy Attorney General
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Lindsey Graham
U.S. Senator (R-SC) and Judiciary Committee Member
Video
Linda Greenhouse
Supreme Court Reporter, The New York Times
Video
Heidi Heitkamp
Former U.S. Senator (D-ND)
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Josh Holmes
Second Interview with the Former Chief of Staff for Mitch McConnell
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Josh Holmes
Former Chief of Staff for Mitch McConnell
Video
Carl Hulse
Author, Confirmation Bias: Inside Washington’s War Over the Supreme Court, From Scalia’s Death to Justice Kavanaugh
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Carrie Johnson
Justice Correspondent, NPR
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Robert Bork Jr.
Son of Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork
Video
Amy Klobuchar
U.S. Senator (D-MN) and Judiciary Committee Member
Video
Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator (D-VT) and Judiciary Committee Member
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Mark Leibovich
National Correspondent, The New York Times Magazine
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Frank Luntz
Republican Pollster
Video
Alec MacGillis
Author, The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell
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Jane Mayer
Chief Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker
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Ted Olson
Second Interview with the Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General
Video
Ted Olson
Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General
Video
Norman Ornstein
Co-Author, One Nation After Trump
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Ed O’Keefe
Political Correspondent, CBS News
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Ricki Seidman
Democratic Political Strategist
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Marc Short
Chief of Staff to Vice President Mike Pence
Video
Alan Simpson
Former U.S. Senator (R-WY) and Judiciary Committee Member
Video
Ilya Somin
Law Professor, George Mason University
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Darlene Superville
White House Correspondent, The Associated Press
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Nina Totenberg
Second Interview with an NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent
Video
Nina Totenberg
Legal Affairs Correspondent, NPR
Video
Laurence Tribe
Law Professor, Harvard University
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Sheldon Whitehouse
U.S. Senator (D-RI) and Judiciary Committee Member
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Juan Williams
Political Analyst and Author of Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
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John Yarmuth
U.S. Representative (D-KY)
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Jason Zengerle
Political Correspondent, GQ
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