
Midterm elections have consequences. "Miserably low turnout in the 2014 midterms helped Republicans take the Senate," David Leonhardt reminds us, "which in turn allowed them to steal a Supreme Court seat from Barack Obama. And mediocre turnout in 2016 helped Donald Trump to win the presidency, which has allowed him to nominate two justices." The first was Neil Gorsuch. The second is...
Who is Judge Brett Kavanaugh?
Kavanaugh, 53, is a candidate straight out of Supreme Court central casting: He went to Yale and Yale Law (every current justice either attended that school or Harvard Law); he clerked for two federal appellate judges, including the well-known Alex Kozinski; worked in the solicitor general’s office in the George H.W. Bush administration; and then clerked for Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Since 2006, he has sat on the DC Circuit, which also produced current justices John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It’s not for nothing that the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo, who has been Trump’s most important adviser on court nominations, singled Kavanaugh out as one of the most promising contenders for Kennedy’s seat.
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🚨Kavanaugh urged Congress to pass “a law exempting a President—while in office—from criminal prosecution and investigation, including from questioning by criminal prosecutors.” #SCOTUS pic.twitter.com/Sv3o8CQE5Q
— Steve Spaulding (@SteveESpaulding) July 10, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh wanted to ask Bill Clinton, under oath, about the specific places he ejaculated onto pic.twitter.com/V87Cj9OKED
— Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) July 6, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh spent 5 years in the Bush White House. He undoubtedly sent tens of thousands of emails. All of those are public record and Democrats and the media should demand that they be posted online like Elena Kagan's emails were.
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) July 10, 2018
Ezra Klein says:
It's going to be quite a visual when five men overturn Roe. https://t.co/inbITwHYy8
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) July 10, 2018