Prompted by Orrin Hatch, Kavanaugh now shilling for @FedSoc, which he’s a longtime member of and had a hand in putting him on Trump’s radar.
Here’s a long feature from @JeffreyToobin on Leonard Leo, who has an outsize influence on #SCOTUS nominees.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/the-conservative-pipeline-to-the-supreme-court …
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Cristian Farias Retweeted John McCormack
Kavanaugh here addresses Kamala Harris' suggestion last night that he may have had improper discussions with Trump lawyers about the Russia investigation.https://twitter.com/McCormackJohn/status/1037720144766808064 …
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Patrick Leahy now questioning Kavanaugh in a very in-the-weeds discussion about whether he received stolen Dem emails about judicial politics during his time in the Bush admin. Kavanaugh has declared innocence. Here's a distillation of that controversy:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/us/politics/kavanaugh-leahy-bush-disputes.html …
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Cristian Farias Retweeted Manu Raju
MEANWHILE: Hirono follows through on her promise to release confidential committee records:https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1037725150635012096 …
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Manu RajuVerified account @mkrajuNow Mazie Hirono releases this committee confidential document where Kavanaugh wrote that government programs targeting Native Hawaiians “as a group” is “of questionable validity under the Constitution” and would be “subject to strict scrutiny” pic.twitter.com/laHJYk7dsX2 replies 16 retweets 22 likesShow this thread -
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Oops, broke up the thread. Meant to put this tweet here. Lindsey Graham now up.https://twitter.com/cristianafarias/status/1037731780969865217 …
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Cristian FariasVerified account @cristianafariasLol, Lindsay Graham asking Brett Kavanaugh about whether a right to abortion is explicitly in the Constitution. He's trying to help him, but Kav is dodging and won't answer. "The liberty clause refers to liberty," he says, but won't elaborate. Says he "wants to be very careful."Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
Back from break. Dick Durbin of Illinois offers a lengthy, open-ended question about the power of the presidency during the age of Donald Trump. There was a lot of that yesterday — with implications for administrative law and the Mueller investigation.http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/kavanaugh-devotion-presidential-power.html …
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"No one is above the law in the United States of America," Kavanaugh tells Utah's Mike Lee, who has been trying to take the sting out of several lines of questioning from Democrats. Kav suggests presidents may be properly investigated under the current special counsel system.
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Along the same lines: Kavanaugh reiterates he's never taken a constitutional position on whether a president can be indicted — that the legal debate that's really raging is not about presidential immunity from charges, but the timing of when the charges can happen. Lunch break.
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Back from lunch. Rhode Island's Sheldon Whitehouse now up: He's asking Kavanaugh about his being a confidential source for stories relating to the Kenneth Starr investigation. He's asked if he'd release reporters from their anonymous sourcing obligations. He defers to Starr.
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Couple of typos in latest chart from Whitehouse, who's asking whether Kav should recuse from Trump-related criminal controversies. What possible greater influence could there be than being appointed to a seat by a president under investigation? Kav says inappropriate to answer.pic.twitter.com/iJht400y5A
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I think you meant "influnce"
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