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Dreifort
conservative
intolerant
ideologically rigid
controversial
Dreifort anchors as the Supreme Court Justice whose chambers Ainsley Hayes clerked in, a credential Leo deploys to champion her amid hiring frictions in S02E04's portico and Oval debates. Tribbey savages him as an idiot, intolerant toward gays, lesbians, blacks, unions, women, the poor, and the first, fourth, fifth, and ninth amendments—exposing raw partisan fault lines. This offstage conservative jurist fuels West Wing ideological clashes, embodying judicial pedigrees that propel unlikely trajectories while igniting Democratic scorn for perceived bigotry and constitutional narrowness.
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