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PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts) Tue Oct 9, 2018, 08:57 PM Oct 2018

Kavanaugh takes active role in first day at U.S. Supreme Court

Brett Kavanaugh spent a collegial first day on the bench as a U.S. Supreme Court justice on Tuesday that contrasted sharply with the venom of his confirmation process, taking an active role in arguments alongside his eight new colleagues.

Kavanaugh, a veteran of such proceedings after 12 years on an influential U.S. appeals court, looked at ease as he asked several questions during two hours of lively oral arguments involving a federal sentencing law for repeat offenders.

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Kavanaugh posed questions to lawyers in both cases before the court, his first one coming about 20 minutes into the arguments.

At one point, Kavanaugh could be seen having a lighthearted exchange with liberal Justice Elena Kagan, seated next to him. At another point, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to pinch Gorsuch, sitting next to her, to playfully illustrate her point about what constitutes a violent act. Gorsuch responded with a faux grimace of pain.

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Kavanaugh takes active role in first day at U.S. Supreme Court (Original Post) PoliticAverse Oct 2018 OP

They need to get along. madaboutharry Oct 2018 #1

Right. They will get along. elleng Oct 2018 #3

Exactly Polybius Oct 2018 #8

I am not surprised! at140 Oct 2018 #2

"He graduated at the top of his class in Yale law college." - Not True lame54 Oct 2018 #4

Interesting and rather frightening how Trump's lie that Kavanaugh was "number 1 in his class" skylucy Oct 2018 #5

When Justice Elena Kagan was the Dean at Yale she hired him. former9thward Oct 2018 #6

WOW so Trump lied so many times? at140 Oct 2018 #7

madaboutharry

(40,211 posts)

1. They need to get along.

Reply to PoliticAverse (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2018, 09:08 PM

Oct 2018

The SC has to function. Otherwise the whole show will collapse.

elleng

(130,914 posts)

3. Right. They will get along.

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 9, 2018, 09:21 PM

Oct 2018

Justice Kavanaugh Takes the Bench on the Supreme Court.

*Justice Elena Kagan, who sits next to Justice Kavanaugh on the bench, whispered and laughed with him in the moments before the argument began. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump’s first appointee to the Supreme Court, took his new seat at the opposite end of the bench, next to Justice Sonia Sotomayor.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/us/politics/justice-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court.html?

Polybius

(15,421 posts)

8. Exactly

Reply to madaboutharry (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 9, 2018, 10:53 PM

Oct 2018

Thomas seemed to have helped Ginsberg when she was taking her chair yesterday at the ceremony. Thankfully, the SC gets along far more than Congress. Has one ever publicly attacked another member in recent times? How about a former member?

at140

(6,110 posts)

2. I am not surprised!

Reply to PoliticAverse (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2018, 09:15 PM

Oct 2018

He graduated at the top of his class in Yale law college. We just do not know about his sexual aggressive behavior in college...was it even more aggressive than what we heard from Dr. Ford? Investigation is warranted.

lame54

(35,290 posts)

4. "He graduated at the top of his class in Yale law college." - Not True

Reply to at140 (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 9, 2018, 09:27 PM

Oct 2018

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-brett-kavanaugh-yale-1st-in-class-2018-10

https://qz.com/1410253/was-brett-kavanaugh-ranked-number-one-at-yale/

...as an undergraduate student at Yale, Kavanaugh did not garner the highest honors possible and was not the top student. He graduated “cum laude.” The designation means simply that he graduated “with distinction,” below those who earned the honors of “magna cum laude” (“with great distinction”) and “summa cum laude” (“with the highest distinction”).

skylucy

(3,739 posts)

5. Interesting and rather frightening how Trump's lie that Kavanaugh was "number 1 in his class"

Reply to lame54 (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 9, 2018, 09:35 PM

Oct 2018

can take root even in Democratic circles.

former9thward

(32,012 posts)

6. When Justice Elena Kagan was the Dean at Yale she hired him.

Reply to lame54 (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 9, 2018, 09:40 PM

Oct 2018

She must have thought he had some intelligence to hire him to be a professor at their law school which is considered to be the top in the country.

at140

(6,110 posts)

7. WOW so Trump lied so many times?

Reply to lame54 (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 9, 2018, 09:48 PM

Oct 2018

How many times I heard Trump say Kavanaugh graduated at the top of his class from law school. My daughter graduated from law school last year "magna cum laude", so I had to assume Kavanaugh must have graduated "summa cum laude" from Yale law school. I am surprised Yale law school does not rank graduating students.

This should have been brought up much more during the judiciary committee hearings. I do not recall Kavanaugh being asked about it. But then I did not watch the entiire proceedings.

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