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Ted Olson is a lawyer who served as U.S. assistant attorney general under Reagan and solicitor general under George W. Bush. He has argued cases in front of the Supreme Court, including Bush v. Gore and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

Nina Totenberg is a legal affairs correspondent for NPR. She has reported on the U.S. Supreme Court for more than 40 years and notably broke the story about Anita Hill’s allegations of sexual harassment by then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.

Watch former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson's (R) candid, full interview conducted with FRONTLINE during the making of the May 2019 documentary "Supreme Revenge."

Robert Bork, Junior is the son of Judge Robert H. Bork, the failed Supreme Court nominee under Ronald Reagan.

Marc Short is the former Director of Legislative Affairs in the Trump White House from January 2017 through July 2018.

Nan Aron is the founder and president of Alliance for Justice, a liberal advocacy group that monitors the appointment of federal judicial nominees.

Dick Durbin, a Democrat, is the senior United States senator from Illinois. He serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Frank Luntz is a political consultant, pollster, and "public opinion guru" best known for developing key messages for Republican causes.

Linda Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered the United States Supreme Court for nearly three decades for The New York Times.

Josh Holmes is the former chief of staff in Senator Mitch McConnell's personal office.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was one of Kavanaugh’s most vocal defenders on the Senate Judiciary Committee — decrying Democrats for making the hearing what he called “the most unethical sham since I've been in politics."

Kellyanne Conway speaks out about President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the high-stakes confirmation process that followed, her reaction to Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh (which Kavanaugh denied) — and why she believes that ultimately, “the good guys won.”

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) was one of the few undecided senators. She tells FRONTLINE she faced intimidation and harassment: “I received a fax in which the person threatened to cut off my arms and legs and slit my throat if I voted for Judge Kavanaugh.”

Sen. Amy Klobuchar's (D-MN) exchange with Brett Kavanaugh over claims of his excessive drinking was one of the most-talked-about moments from the judge’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ.), an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, generated headlines during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh.

To former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), the statement Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-AZ) made right after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death was “one of the most troubling of all the pronouncements I've heard in my entire professional life with regard to Congress and the way we function as a democratic republic.”

Bannon also shares his perspective on the role a list of potential Supreme Court nominees approved by the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation played in Trump’s successful presidential campaign: “I don’t think he would be president without that list.”