The FRONTLINE Interviews

Supreme Revenge

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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.

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Supreme Revenge

FRONTLINE tells the inside story of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s hard-fought effort to transform the nation’s highest court and chronicles how the Supreme Court's conservative majority came to be.

Interviews for this film were conducted by Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore, Mike Wiser, and Gabrielle Schonder of the Kirk Documentary Group and edited for the web by Phil Bennett, Lauren Prestileo, and Callie Wiser.

Design and build for Supreme Revenge by Dan Nolan with assistance from Kimberly Patch. Video editing by Tim Meagher and Ben Reichman. Copy editing by Julie Wolf. Additional assistance from Dale Cohen, Miles Alvord, Olivia DelVecchio, Abby Johnston, Priyanka Boghani, Patrice Taddonio, Rahima Nasa, Catherine Trautwein, and Jennifer Wehunt.

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