Law Justice Brett Kavanaugh Megathread - Megathread for Brett Kavanaugh, US Supreme Court Justice

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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/05/trump-picks-brett-kavanaugh-for-supreme-court.html

President Donald Trump has picked Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge with extensive legal credentials and a lengthy political record, to succeed Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, NBC News reported.

Kavanaugh, 53, is an ideological conservative who is expected to push the court to the right on a number of issues including business regulation and national security. The favorite of White House Counsel Donald McGahn, Kavanaugh is also considered a safer pick than some of the more partisan choices who were on the president’s shortlist.

A graduate of Yale Law School who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Kavanaugh has the traditional trappings of a presidential nominee to the high court.


If confirmed, the appellate judge would become the second young, conservative jurist Trump has put on the top U.S. court during his first term. Kavanaugh's confirmation would give the president an even bigger role in shaping U.S. policy for decades to come. The potential to morph the federal judiciary led many conservatives to support Trump in 2016, and he has not disappointed so far with the confirmation of conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and numerous federal judges.

At times, he has diverged from the Republican party’s ideological line on important cases that have come before him, including on the Affordable Care Act, the 2010 health care law which Kavanaugh has declined to strike down on a number of occasions in which it has come before him.

Anti-abortion groups quietly lobbied against Kavanaugh, pushing instead for another jurist on Trump’s shortlist, 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett, ABC News reported in the run-up to Trump’s announcement.

Kavanaugh received his current appointment in 2006 after five years in the George W. Bush administration, where he served in a number of roles including staff secretary to the president. He has been criticized for his attachment to Bush, as well as his involvement in a number of high-profile legal cases.

For instance, Kavanaugh led the investigation into the death of Bill Clinton’s Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster, and assisted in Kenneth Starr’s 1998 report outlining the case for Clinton’s impeachment.

Democrats criticized Kavanaugh’s political roles during his 2006 confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“Your experience has been most notable, not so much for your blue chip credentials, but for the undeniably political nature of so many of your assignments,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said at the time.

“From the notorious Starr report, to the Florida recount, to the President’s secrecy and privilege claims, to post-9/11 legislative battles including the Victims Compensation Fund, to ideological judicial nomination fights, if there has been a partisan political fight that needed a very bright legal foot soldier in the last decade, Brett Kavanaugh was probably there,” Schumer said.

Kavanaugh's work on the Starr report has been scrutinized by Republicans who have said it could pose trouble for the president as he negotiates with special counsel Robert Mueller over the terms of a possible interview related to Mueller's Russia probe. The 1998 document found that Clinton's multiple refusals to testify to a grand jury in connection with Starr's investigation were grounds for impeachment.

In later years, Kavanaugh said that Clinton should not have had to face down an investigation during his presidency. He has said the indictment of a president would not serve the public interest.

Like Trump's first nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, Kavanaugh clerked for Kennedy. If he is confirmed, it will mark the first time ever that a current or former Supreme Court justice has two former clerks become justices, according to an article by Adam Feldman, who writes a blog about the Supreme Court.

Kavanaugh teaches courses on the separation of powers, the Supreme Court, and national security at Harvard Law School and Yale Law School, and does charitable work at St. Maria’s Meals program at Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C., according to his official biography.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ett-kavanaugh-nomination-by-a-28-point-margin

After a blistering confirmation battle, Justice Brett Kavanaugh will take his seat for oral arguments on the U.S. Supreme Court with a skeptical public, a majority of which opposed his nomination. However, Democrats may not be able to exploit this fact in the upcoming elections as much as they hope, because the independent voters overwhelmingly disapprove of their own handling of the nomination by a 28-point margin, a new CNN/SSRS poll finds.

Overall, just 41 percent of those polled said they wanted to see Kavanaugh confirmed, compared to 51 percent who said they opposed his confirmation. In previous CNN polls dating back to Robert Bork in 1987, no nominee has been more deeply underwater.

What's interesting, however, is even though Democrats on the surface would seem to have public opinion on their side, just 36 percent approved of how they handled the nomination, compared to 56 percent who disapproved. (Republicans were at 55 percent disapproval and 35 percent approval). A further breakdown finds that 58 percent of independents disapproved of the way the Democrats handled the nomination — compared to 30 percent who approved. (Independents also disapproved of Republicans handling of the matter, but by a narrower 53 percent to 32 percent margin).

Many people have strong opinions on the way the Kavanaugh nomination will play out in November and who it will benefit. The conventional wisdom is that it will help Democrats in the House, where there are a number of vulnerable Republicans in suburban districts where losses among educated women could be devastating, and that it will help Republicans in the Senate, where the tossup races are in red states where Trump and Kavanaugh are more popular.

That said, it's clear that the nomination energized both sides, and that the tactics pursued by the parties turned off independent voters in a way that makes it much harder to predict how this will end up affecting election outcomes.
 
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Reminder: In a socialist system, nobody would need an abortion, because this system would theoretically allow women to take care of their children; unwanted pregnancies would also be rare, because shit like free love can only survive in a decadent society created by Capitalism.

You Gopniks don't deserve the sweet nectar of Capitalism.
 
At the end of the day differing political factions need to share the same country. We can't find ourselves in a position where one side is totally shut out of the conversation. That is how civil wars start. There is also the issue that without a meaningful opposition to policy, the ruling faction could very well go too far as it has ideological blinkers on. Its seems to me though that the so called "Sensible left" is moving into the Republicans tent, which means going foreword the actual ideological debates will occur within the Republican party rather then in the elections, which has its own issues. Hopefully the Democrats sort themselves out and try and isolate the identitarians in their ranks. If they don't they will continue to hemorrhage support even as they become increasingly isolated. Which is itself a recipe for violence.
I'm not saying the left can't vote anymore, but when I vote for the right I expect them to at least appoint textualists/originalists to the SC. It's a disgrace not everyone on there is one. There are ways to change the constitution and make laws that would enact policies the left wants. I would suggest the left work through those methods instead of trying to create a kritarchy.
 
I'm waiting for a livestream of the hearing, but C-Span currently has live tweets coming in from the senators. Have a few from the last half-hour.

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Yeah, an open mind!
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Is that a threat?
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Reminder: In a socialist system, nobody would need an abortion, because this system would theoretically allow women to take care of their children; unwanted pregnancies would also be rare, because shit like free love can only survive in a decadent society created by Capitalism.

In a socialist system they would just plain abandon children in boxes because they dont have money to feed them so tell me again the wonders of socialism, and if you say "that is not socialism is state capitalism" im going to laugh at you
 
In a socialist system they would just plain abandon children in boxes because they dont have money to feed them so tell me again the wonders of socialism, and if you say "that is not socialism is state capitalism" im going to laugh at you
IDK he might be somewhat right about the unwanted children thing. Isn't it harder to get pregnant and successfully carry a child to term when you're literally starving to death? Plus you can always drown your female child when the government places a limit on the number of kids you can have.
 
Condi Rice?

There's a reason the left and it's associated media arms quietly but constantly seethes veiled hatred for her, but can't quite come out and say it..... ditto Colin Powell. Measured black republicans who calmly advance policy with no intent to favor any one group or make 'blame whitey' a policy plank are the final boss of their dungeons. Remember, to them, Maxine Waters is how a black female congressional member SHOULD act.

@Kari Kamiya the state whose Judges routinely get rebuked by the SCOTUS for overstepping the boundries of law to implement soical tinkering they couldn't get done at the ballot box has a problem with conservative justices that will surely keep rebuking them? Say it aint' so!


And lol, interfere with their population's "self determination"? Someone needs to remind them they're a US state, not an occupied territory.
 
IDK he might be somewhat right about the unwanted children thing. Isn't it harder to get pregnant and successfully carry a child to term when you're literally starving to death? Plus you can always drown your female child when the government places a limit on the number of kids you can have.

If you put it that way, yeah, i mean who would want to have children when diapers cost 3 times the minimum wage, you cant find m.ilk or formulas to feed them,it did not help that chavez practically encouraged the masses to have childrens to recieve wellfare benefits (Mothers of the homeland it was called, it was scrapped when the money begin to dissapear)

I get sickened every time i hear those freaking ignorant kids about muh socialism, come to venezuela motherfuckers if you hate freedom so much
 
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She’s actually trying to compete with Avaneti for “worst lawyer in America”, isn’t she? Her client presented a core witness under oath. That witness not only failed to corraborate her clients story, but countered it. And then further gave testimony under oath if attempts to suborn purjery. You don’t get a “do over”. You don’t get to just pull another one out to say “well you absolutely have to believe this one!” I saw some rumblings that Grassley is so pissed about this he is handing it off to Justice to empanel a Grand Jury. This single reason is why Collins flipped. And yet this idiot lawyer keeps digging.
 
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