With Donald Trump nominating Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, Maria Armoudian speaks with Jon Michaels about the role of the four so-called liberal justices and how privatization has amounted to what Michaels calls a constitutional coup.

Jon Michaels is a Professor of Law at UCLA. He is an expert in constitutional law and is the author of Constitutional Coup: Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic.

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