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In this bonus from Stay Tuned, Jeffrey Rosen, the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, discusses his concerns about the increased politicization of the judiciary, and why he jokingly calls himself “the Harriet Miers of legal journalism.”

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On the CAFE Insider docket this week:

– The Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson; 

– Steve Bannon’s court appearance in his contempt of Congress criminal case; and

– The New York Times report that confirmed the authenticity of business emails that were obtained from Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020. The revelations are reportedly related to the Department of Justice’s ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax affairs and international business dealings.

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