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Kennedy Helped Trump Decide on Kavanaugh
https://politicalwire.com/2018/07/10/kennedy-helped-trump-decide-on-kavanaugh/Kennedy Helped Trump Decide on Kavanaugh
July 10, 2018 at 6:34 am EDT
By Taegan Goddard
Politico: “After Justice Anthony Kennedy told President Trump he would relinquish his seat on the Supreme Court, the president emerged from his private meeting with the retiring jurist focused on one candidate to name as his successor: Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Kennedy’s former law clerk.”
“So even as Trump dispatched his top lawyers to comb though Kavanaugh’s rulings and quizzed allies about whether he was too close to the Bush family, potentially a fatal flaw, the president was always leaning toward accepting Kennedy’s partiality for Kavanaugh while preserving the secret until his formal announcement.”
“So even as Trump dispatched his top lawyers to comb though Kavanaugh’s rulings and quizzed allies about whether he was too close to the Bush family, potentially a fatal flaw, the president was always leaning toward accepting Kennedy’s partiality for Kavanaugh while preserving the secret until his formal announcement.”