Even though Yale Law School published a press release touting the accomplishments of Brett Kavanaugh, its alumnus and President Donald Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee, not everyone at the school is singing his praises.
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Trump announced Monday that he would nominate Kavanaugh, a US appeals court judge, to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.
“We have the largest field program we’ve ever had, and we’re using it to take Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation fight directly to voters”. “Brett Kavanaugh is the person who initiated the thought process concerning ObamaCare to treat it as a tax”, he points out. “Whoever is appointed will be in the job for thirty or forty years”.
Like NCJW, the Jewish establishment tends to take progressive stances on domestic issues such as reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, voting rights, gun control and separation of church and state. Susan Collins, of ME, a supporter of abortion rights who represents a mostly blue state – ME is able to split its electoral college votes, with one district consistently blue and the second a battleground.
Lee said Democrats will also focus on Kavanaugh’s expansive view of presidential power and will – to a lesser extent – shine a light on corporate greed, attempting to tie in Kavanaugh’s past opposition to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The majority for the Republicans in the Senate is razor thin and so every vote will matter dearly to each side. He described how his mother was a trailblazer who went to law school and later became a trial judge.
Kozinski, appointed by Ronald Reagan to the 9th Circuit, served on the court from 1985 until 2017, and was known as a “feeder judge”, sending nine of his clerks to work for Supreme Court justices between 2009 and 2013 alone.
The Senate’s top Republican pushed back forcefully Thursday on warnings from Democrats that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh might be willing to thwart the Russian Federation investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller. A simple majority is required. Republicans hold a narrow 51-49 majority.
Democrats hope to model their opposition on their successful effort fending off a repeal of the Affordable Care Act past year, despite a Republican majority in Congress.
“I look forward to the upcoming hearings, reviewing the record, and meeting personally with Judge Kavanaugh, with an open mind, the senator tweeted on Tuesday”.
Second, Trump picked the only potential high court candidate who assures that the confirmation hearings will be dominated by a discussion of Trump’s vulnerability to criminal proceedings as a sitting president.
Democrats hope two Republicans who back abortion rights, Susan Collins of ME and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, will vote against the nominee.
Kavanaugh grew up in Washington as the son of a schoolteacher. “A woman’s right to make her own health care decisions is at risk”.
Later, he worked on Bill Clinton’s impeachment over a sexual relationship with a White House intern. And, he has been part of some highly disputed legal cases.
While Democrats tried to paint Kavanaugh as an extremist, Republicans said he was the type of moderate Bush might have appointed.
Now Democrats – who as the minority party have few options to block the Kavanaugh confirmation process – are desperate for their support once more as they weigh what many see as one of the most consequential decisions of Trump’s presidency. Special counsel Robert Mueller, of course, is now investigating potential collusion between Russian Federation and the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
“This was long before there was a Russian Federation investigation and long before Donald Trump was president, so I think those who are trying to draw a link here are missing the timeline”, Collins said.
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