Kavanaugh for the Court

Kavanaugh, 53, was picked by former President George W. Bush to serve on the influential Washington-based appeals court in 2003. In tapping Brett Kavanaugh to be his second nominee to the Supreme Court, Trump has guaranteed that health care will be at the center of the confirmation fight.

Minutes after President Trump announced Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Alabama’s Democratic senator took a wait-and-see approach. “Let’s just say it’s the four people”.

All of the candidates are relatively young and could help shape legal doctrine on the high court for decades to come.

Hardiman was the runner-up when Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia past year. That “broad definition of obstruction of justice”, Landler and Apuzzo write, “would be damaging if applied to President Trump in the Russian Federation investigation”. “And I will always strive to preserve the Constitution of the United States and the American rule of law”.

“Tomorrow I begin meeting with members of the Senate”, he said. “I am thinking about this person”. The White House said Monday that former Arizona Sen. If she’s chosen and confirmed, it would be the first time four women would serve together on the nine-member Supreme Court.

He has stood steadfast in many other cases as well.

Sure to be controversial is a 2017 decision involving the alleged targeting of Hispanics for questioning by Border Patrol agents. Critics will point to his dissent in a case in which the majority said that a teen immigrant could have an abortion.

Barrett, the only woman under consideration, has the support of Sean Hannity, the Fox News host and close Trump ally, who played golf with the president in New Jersey on Sunday.

SCOTUSblog, June 2018 – SCOTUSblog’s profile of Kavanaugh provides a comprehensive summary of the judge’s background, from his upbringing in the Washington area to his college and law school years at Yale to his prestigious positions in various parts of the federal government. She was a law clerk for Scalia.

“My goal, first and foremost, has always been to find people to serve on the court who believe in the Constitution as it’s written, and that’s really what drives the conservative legal movement”, Leo said.

“The president has to think about who is the easiest to get confirmed here”, Blunt said. That decision was later overturned.

Trump announced his pick fewer than two weeks after Kennedy said he would end his 30-year career on the bench. Judge Amy Coney Barrett is the favored nominee among the religious right.

On occasion, Supreme Court appointments double as important cultural milestones. Kethledge, 51, is a judge for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. He previously worked for Starr during the H.W. Bush Administration.

In his dozen years on the court, Kavanaugh has been involved in some 286 opinions.

The decision has far-reaching implications for America on everything from abortion to guns to immigration. “A judge must be independent, and must interpret the law, not make the law”.

The executive editor of the Lawfare blog, Susan Hennessey, who is also a Brookings fellow in national security in governance studies, called it “completely freakish that the president has imposed an artificial, TV ratings-driven deadline on such a consequential choice”.

Kavanaugh’s confirmation will run through the Senate, prompting the endorsement from Cashman, Bidwill and several of their Georgetown Prep alumni. And that is a big if.

A judicial activist advising U.S. President Donald Trump on potential nominees to the Supreme Court signaled Sunday that two of the candidates would be a tougher sell to conservatives.

Republicans reacting to the choice Monday night praised Kavanaugh as a consensus pick who would unite the moderate and conservative wings of the party. I’m open to voting no.

While Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing will take place in the fall, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already warned Trump that his nominee might have a hard confirmation battle over the other shortlisted candidates.