Hillsdale College Hosts First Book Event with Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino Revealing New Information About Controversial Kavanaugh Hearings

Co-Authors will discuss new book on Kavanaugh confirmation and Supreme Court

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On Thursday, July 11, Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship will host an evening discussion with Mollie Hemingway, author and senior journalism fellow at Hillsdale College, and Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director at the Judicial Crisis Network. The co-authors will discuss their new book, Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court.

Their new book is one of the first to delve into the controversial confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court, and will reveal new information not made public during last fall’s historic congressional hearings.

The lecture is open to the media, although public registration for the event has closed. Unregistered guests may watch the event livestream at the following link.

WHEN

Thursday, July 11

6 p.m. ET – Doors open
6:30 p.m. ET – Program begins

Where

Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship

227 Massachusetts Ave. N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20002

WHO

Mollie Hemingway is a senior journalism fellow at Hillsdale College in Washington, DC, senior editor of The Federalist and a Fox News contributor. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, and Christianity Today. Hemingway was a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Philips Foundation Journalism Fellow and a Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Journalism at Hillsdale College. She received her B.A. from the University of Colorado at Denver.

Carrie Severino is chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network. She is a regular guest on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, ABC and C-SPAN. Severino briefs senators on judicial confirmations and has testified before Congress on constitutional issues. She received her B.A. from Duke University, M.A. from Michigan State University and J.D. from Harvard University.

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About Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center

The Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship is an extension of the teaching mission of Hillsdale College to Washington, D.C. Its purpose is to teach the Constitution and the principles that give it meaning. Through the study of original source documents from American history—and of older books that formed the education of America’s founders—the Center seeks to inspire students, teachers, citizens, and policymakers to return the Constitution to its central place in the political life of the nation.

About Hillsdale College

Hillsdale College is an independent liberal arts college located in southern Michigan. Founded in 1844, the College has built a national reputation through its classical liberal arts core curriculum and its principled refusal to accept federal or state taxpayer subsidies, even indirectly in the form of student grants or loans. It also conducts an outreach effort promoting civil and religious liberty, including a free monthly speech digest, Imprimis, with a circulation of more than 5.7 million. For more information, visit hillsdale.edu.

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