Acosta: Trump intentionally chose Kavanaugh to save himself from a criminal investigation.

[RandySF]

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[highplainsdem]

1. Yep. It's very clear, and it needs to be said clearly by the media.

[Grassy Knoll]

2. 2009? He Said This When Obama Was President...

..I'm Confuzed

[DeminPennswoods]

3. Law review article written while Kavanaugh was on

the federal bench. Supposedly Kavanaugh came to this revelation after serving with Ken Starr on the Clinton investigation/impeachment. However, O'Donnell pointed out Kavanaugh writes in the same article that only Congress can protect the president by enacting laws that specifically say a president cannot be bothered by civil suits (that happen before becoming president) or be made to testify to prosecutors or defense while in office.

[Grassy Knoll]

4. Thanks

[ancianita]

11. Does it mean SCOTUS won't hear a solicitor general's argument for indictment? We gotta wait

until the would-be dictator for life gets booted out of office?

Will this galvanize at least one Republican to block this nomination...

I'm no lawyer, but even the lawyers are sausage making over what comes after the Special Counsel report.

I can't even... depressing... gotta get to bed.

[leftynyc]

5. There is a dinstinction here

kavenaugh was referring to criminal cases resulting from what was a civil matter (jones v Clinton). He doesn't think civil cases should be allowed during a presidents term. But when it came to the perjury and obstruction charges against Clinton, he was all for it. mueller is not about a civil matter. Criminal all the way. As far as I can tell, kagen aught has not commented or ruled on something like this.

[DeminPennswoods]

8. He also wrote the Congress should pass a law

to protect the president from criminal matter while in office, as well, in the same article. He thinks it's just too disruptive for the president to have to deal with personal civil or criminal legal matters while in office.

His argument is that impeachment is the remedy for presidential misconduct which clearly it is. However, the founders surely did not anticipate the willful dereliction of duty by the co-equal branch of gov't - Congress - in holding the president accountable.

[leftynyc]

12. Congress refuses to do its job

but that's not this judges fault. My bigger worry is his feelings about special counsels or prosecutors because that's what I see is going to be the issue the republicans will hang their hats on - that the entire investigation should ONLY be handled by congress.

[forgotmylogin]

9. There's also a distinction when

the President himself is crippling the operation of the federal government and existing law in ways that harm people.

[Cha]

6. Trump chose Kavanaugh because he argued (below) that a sitting President should not be burdened with

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[UTUSN]

7. K&R

[EndGOPPropaganda]

10. Corruption. We live in a banana republic. Time to fix it. Organize. Resist. Vote.

And for god's sake if you see Stephen Miller in a restaurant protest nonviolently until he leaves!

[workinclasszero]

13. Of course he did

And I'm sure the news media will be all over that story 24/7.