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New SCOTUS Judge

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Brett Kavanaugh. In my opinion, the best of a bad lot (if you're a liberal).

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Brett Kavanaugh. In my opinion, the best of a bad lot (if you're a liberal).

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Not great, could be worse. Kind of get the impression they're playing the odds on getting one more nomination in during Trump's term and are saving the "big" fight for that.

Not the hard line anti-abortionist people feared, he's at worst a "middle of the roader."

On the young side, which I expected. He's easily got 30 years at least of service in him.
 
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Very telling is this:

Believes presidents should be protected from lawsuits and criminal investigations: The Starr Report to Congress "outlined information that potentially constituted grounds for the impeachment of President Clinton," as the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary notes. And yet, Kavanaugh wrote this in 2009 in the Minnesota Law Review about presidential investigations, which is sure to please President Trump:

"Even the lesser burdens of a criminal investigation— including preparing for questioning by criminal investigators — are time-consuming and distracting. Like civil suits, criminal investigations take the President's focus away from his or her responsibilities to the people. And a President who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as President."
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NPR: (Also has a good and fair general overview of him) https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/6261...ign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180709
 
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Brett Kavanaugh. In my opinion, the best of a bad lot (if you're a liberal).

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Why won't the zombie corpse of ****** 90's politics die already. I mean who didn’t want discussions of the Starr investigation dominating confirmation hearings.
 
I wonder if he got this guy's oath of loyalty on tape. This pick is all about protecting himself from the law.
 
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This pick is all about protecting himself from the law.
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//Trying to put a silver lining on it// Blessing in disguise. He picked a guy solely on how much it benefited him, so didn't pick some hardcore ultraconservative hard liner.

Again my gut is this is a softball pitch and they are saving the big fight for the next one.

I hate to be this cynical but... Ginsburg. 85 years old, two time cancer survivor, arguably the most liberal member of the court and hits all the Republican triggers. When she steps down or dies... that replacement is gonna be hard core conservative and that's the one they are going fight long and dirty to get in. They are saving their political and PR capital for that one.
 
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//Trying to put a silver lining on it// Blessing in disguise. He picked a guy solely on how much it benefited him, so didn't pick some hardcore ultraconservative hard liner.

Again my gut is this is a softball pitch and they are saving the big fight for the next one.

I hate to be this cynical but... Ginsburg. 85 years old, two time cancer survivor, arguably the most liberal member of the court and hits all the Republican triggers. When she steps down or dies... that replacement is gonna be hard core conservative and that's the one they are going fight long and dirty to get in. They are saving their political and PR capital for that one.
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Unless something really weird comes out, I think we (liberals) dodged a bullet. And I think if Trump is subpoened, SCOTUS will support it, and probably unanimously.
 
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//Trying to put a silver lining on it// Blessing in disguise. He picked a guy solely on how much it benefited him, so didn't pick some hardcore ultraconservative hard liner.

Again my gut is this is a softball pitch and they are saving the big fight for the next one.

I hate to be this cynical but... Ginsburg. 85 years old, two time cancer survivor, arguably the most liberal member of the court and hits all the Republican triggers. When she steps down or dies... that replacement is gonna be hard core conservative and that's the one they are going fight long and dirty to get in. They are saving their political and PR capital for that one.
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Agreed! For Trump, the fact Kavanaugh has clearly stated he does not think a sitting president should be investigated or indicted is what Trump was really after. That Kavanaugh is not a hardcore ultraconservative will likely get him the votes he needs from (the couple of remaining) moderate Republicans and maybe even a few Dems up for re-election in red states.

The big fight will come when Ginsburg dies or retires. If Trump is re-elected (how I hate the mere thought of it!), she will definitely be replaced during his presidency.
 
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Kavanaugh will probably vote to overturn Roe vs Wade if a case comes up. After all, he tried to make an undocumented girl not have access to abortion while in DHHS custody.
 
 
The one thing is of all the three branches SCOTUS is the one that marches to party line the least. Both parties have nominated safe, presumably "on their side" Justices only to have them break rank at least some of the time.
 
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