West wing episode guide the supremes biography

Directed by Jessica Yu

Written by Debora Cahn & Josh Singer

Owen Brady, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, has died suddenly of a heart attack.

This prompts a great deal of chaos as the White House senior staff attempt to pick a replacement. The problems go well beyond the liberal and conservative protesters crowding the streets outside the White House, however; Brady was a lifelong conservative Republican, and the Republican-dominated Congress has made it clear that a nominee who they deem to be too liberal will not make it through the confirmation process.

The senior staff are thus forced to locate a moderate candidate who will be acceptable to both Congress and the White House.

Toby and Josh are assigned to interview Judge Evelyn Baker Lang, a circuit court judge who has been brought to the White House to act as a decoy; although far too liberal to make it through the confirmation hearings, the White House hope that making it appear like Lang is being co