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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJustice Kennedy asked Trump to put Kavanaugh on Supreme Court list, book says
Justice Kennedy asked Trump to put Kavanaugh on Supreme Court list, book says
By
Robert Barnes
November 21, 2019 at 3:03 p.m. EST
It was a historic moment in April 2017 when Supreme Court justice Anthony M. Kennedy presided over the ceremonial Rose Garden swearing-in for the courts new member, Neil M. Gorsuch: the first time a sitting justice was joined on the nations highest court by one of his former law clerks.
But a secret meeting moments later in the White House was just as significant, according to a new book by Ruth Marcus, a Washington Post deputy editorial page editor.
Kennedy requested a private moment with President Trump to deliver a message about the next Supreme Court opening, Marcus reports. Kennedy told Trump he should consider another of his former clerks, Brett M. Kavanaugh, who was not on the presidents first two lists of candidates.
The justices message to the president was as consequential as it was straightforward, and it was a remarkable insertion by a sitting justice into the distinctly presidential act of judge picking, Marcus writes in Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/justice-kennedy-asked-trump-to-put-kavanaugh-on-supreme-court-list-book-says/2019/11/21/3495f684-0b0f-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html
By
Robert Barnes
November 21, 2019 at 3:03 p.m. EST
It was a historic moment in April 2017 when Supreme Court justice Anthony M. Kennedy presided over the ceremonial Rose Garden swearing-in for the courts new member, Neil M. Gorsuch: the first time a sitting justice was joined on the nations highest court by one of his former law clerks.
But a secret meeting moments later in the White House was just as significant, according to a new book by Ruth Marcus, a Washington Post deputy editorial page editor.
Kennedy requested a private moment with President Trump to deliver a message about the next Supreme Court opening, Marcus reports. Kennedy told Trump he should consider another of his former clerks, Brett M. Kavanaugh, who was not on the presidents first two lists of candidates.
The justices message to the president was as consequential as it was straightforward, and it was a remarkable insertion by a sitting justice into the distinctly presidential act of judge picking, Marcus writes in Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/justice-kennedy-asked-trump-to-put-kavanaugh-on-supreme-court-list-book-says/2019/11/21/3495f684-0b0f-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html
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Justice Kennedy asked Trump to put Kavanaugh on Supreme Court list, book says (Original Post)
MelissaB
Nov 2019
OP
Raster
(20,998 posts)1. You mean the Justice Kennedy who had a son that worked for DoucheBank*...
...and was part of the tRump* loan approvals. That Justice Kennedy?
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)2. Yup! That's the one.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)3. Yea. No kidding.
Someday soon (i hope) all will be revealed.
Am fearful, but pretty sure, Justice Kennedy will not find favor in history.
It was sooooooooooooooooo off the mark and off pattern. It left a hole in my head.
Hekate
(90,829 posts)4. Oh sh*t
Unclephil
(92 posts)5. The one who people thought was a centrist
Every important decision he made sucked.