Kavanaugh indicates he will not recuse himself, if approved, on a criminal matter involving Trump

[Miles Archer]

Aaron Rupar
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Under questioning by @SenWhitehouse, Kavanaugh indicates he will not recuse himself if he's approved to SCOTUS and a criminal matter involving Trump comes before the court

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[spanone]

1. Of course not, that's why trump picked him

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. From the GOP position, nothing he says matters, if he tells the truth and it is clear

he is a racist, liar scumbag who will illegally protect rump, they confirm him

If he lies and denies it all, they confirm him.

[gratuitous]

5. Exactly

And you know who gets to decide whether a Supreme Court Justice recuses himself? That Justice! It's an unreviewable, unaccountable decision the Justice and the Justice alone makes. By custom, a Justice will recuse if he heard the case in a lower court or represented someone in the case at some point during the litigation, but we all know that customs aren't laws. Kavanaugh is nominated for the Supreme Court precisely so that he can hear, cast a vote, and maybe even write the opinion for inconvenient legal kerfuffles that Donald Trump might find himself in.

Kavanaugh's clear partiality has been enough to derail other nominations (Remember Harriet Mier?), but the Republicans are desperate, and they're now resorting to these desperate measures to save themselves from the consequences of their corruption in the last 20 years. And who better than a man who's been in the middle of that corruption all that time?

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Since that's kind of the whole point of his nomination

[malaise]

4. One party lawless government

Vote them out and lock them up.

[moondust]

6. Disqualified. n/t

[former9thward]

7. Justices appointed by Nixon and Clinton did not recuse themselves

when investigative matters involving them came before the court. In both cases the Justices voted against the president that appointed them.