It is a privilege for me to meet someone as interested in politics as I am; it's a rare find to meet another teen even more fascinated than me by politics, and who knows way more about government. So it was a real honor to have a conversation with Anna Salvatore, a junior in high school and creator of the High School SCOTUS blog, which has had tens of thousands of visitors, including influential promoters such as the "New York Times's" Supreme Court correspondent Adam Liptak. She has been interviewed by NPR and by Ben Wittes, of Brookings and founder of the Lawfare blog (and where I first heard of her on the Lawfare podcast).

In this episode, Anna and I discuss how her blog High School SCOTUS took off, what the process has taught her, looking at the Court's new decisions and what they can tell us about its direction, and the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing's broader effects.

High School SCOTUS: https://highschoolscotus.wordpress.com

Favorite:Podcast--"First Mondays"Person to follow on Social Media--Adam Liptak/Robert Barnes, both SCOTUS reporters Book--John Updike's stories/George Orwell's "Can Socialists be Happy"