Kavanaugh: Watergate tapes decision may have been wrong
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested several years ago that the unanimous high court ruling in 1974 that forced President Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes, leading to the end of his presidency, may have been wrongly decided.
Kavanaugh was taking part in a roundtable discussion with other lawyers when he said at three different points that the decision in U.S. v. Nixon, which marked limits on a presidents ability to withhold information needed for a criminal prosecution, may have come out the wrong way.
A 1999 magazine article about the roundtable was part of thousands of pages of documents that Kavanaugh has provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of the confirmation process. The committee released the documents on Saturday.
Kavanaughs belief in robust executive authority already is front and center in his nomination by President Donald Trump to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. The issue could assume even greater importance if special counsel Robert Mueller seeks to force Trump to testify in the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)erronis
(14,955 posts)Still, there's hope. After 7 decades communist China has not totally stifled dissent. After 8 decades the bolsheviks lost power (and regained it albeit as a oligarchy.) Maybe the USofA will only need to go through the cleansing for a few decades before those titular heads lose theirs.
madaboutharry
(40,153 posts)Where does "robust executive authority" belong in the 21st century? Kavanaugh is the worst kind of person to sit on the SC. I am thinking he doesn't believe in representative democracy.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)may he go the same way.......
This is reminiscent of "the King can do no wrong" mentality of the middle ages in Europe. We left that notion behind in 1776. The president of the United States is NOT ordained by God to rule over us--he is ELECTED BY us (at least, that was the theory before 2000...but that's a tangent) to SERVE us. WE do not serve HIM. He is subject to the law of the land, or the Constitution of the United States means NOTHING! Let him be indicted, tried and convicted in a court of law like any other citizen. Then, if Congress will not impeach him, he can be president from behind bars.
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)He might have a law degree, but he is nothing more than a GOP political hack not much different from Devin Nunes.
DownFromTheMountain
(226 posts)Kavanaugh is a henchman, and ..wrong.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)that a former traitorous president that broke campaign finance laws at first and tried to smear the democratic party with break-in---------------------should have got a get out of jail card.................
And this "guy" sits on the bench presently, he thinks that a president that broke laws to defend and protect the Constitution first and foremost should get a 4 year pass just to break as many laws as possible...................time for some good old fashion protests................................this is just fucked up
He should be disbarred...........................he thinks it just fine and dandy to commit crimes ..................while being in the white house.............................what could possibly go wrong....................first thing that comes to my mind is being blackmail................and we have an orange POS that could be blackmailed right now...............
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?msg=2018%20Midterm%20Elections&p0=263&year=2018&month=11&day=6&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&fromtheme=election
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)Two agents of The Koch Machine's lifelong war on our democracy, our moral decency. and just basic common sense.. Only difference from Koch Bros' previous campaigns for the 4 already sitting Koch owned SCOTUS judges, Kavanaugh is showing us that these
Koch Bros stooges like Kavanaugh and Putin's agenda are attached,with Trump as their paper clip in plain sight.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)of these "Federalist Society pukes..................that have a utter disdain of the Constitution and the pre=amble "We the People".......................and moral decency and basic common sense..................they never had it ..................and this expose of this fascist nominee and past right wing nominee's is now being exposed..............I hope it is not to late..................we need to get into the streets...........................
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?msg=2018%20Midterm%20Elections&p0=263&year=2018&month=11&day=6&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&fromtheme=election
Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)There has to be some basis for his nomination being illegal if it was done for the sole purpose to protect the president against being held for crimes he committed.
shraby
(21,946 posts)Maraya1969
(22,441 posts)thing up. But I don't know if he could. Mueller could bring him in for questioning though.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)is looking at the possibly of breaking campaign finance laws when he paid of porn stars.............
There is only two reasons why this Federalist Society "guy" was chosen.................this and Roe..................
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?msg=2018%20Midterm%20Elections&p0=263&year=2018&month=11&day=6&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&fromtheme=election
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)To tag Bill Clinton with getting together with Monica Lewinsky when Starrs original Investigation turned up empty. Hes the perfect GOP Hypocrite!
We ever get a D potus, and Rs go after him/her, his tune will turn ...
sandensea
(21,530 posts)Nothing lower than a politician in a judge's robes.
Mc Mike
(9,107 posts)Like dRumpf. That guy started out a sloppy 4-f, and has been losing ground steadily ever since.
Owl
(3,629 posts)bluestarone
(16,722 posts)The end of our democracy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,433 posts).ee..the odious fool in WH brings on board--he/she is either complicit, corrupt and or has connections to Kremlin..eventually they all implode in one way or another, end up resigning or quiting, or fires and in some cases indicted and or arrested. So in essence kavanaugh is just temporary,..like trump. We'll just have to see it all play out like a damn novela with all the drama y todo.
Again, how did we get this grifter as president?
in2herbs
(2,942 posts)investigation or prosecution, will the effect of that decision flow down to the other conspirators including voiding the guilty pleas we already have?
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bucolic_frolic
(42,678 posts)Turning the world upside down to suit their own world view without regard for precedent. Awful choice, illegitimately appointed because of Trump's stolen election. America is under seige.
amb123
(1,576 posts)Only Traitors support Unlimited Presidential Power.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)To say a unanimous decision by the SCOTUS is wrong is the height of arrogance.
No wonder Trump nominated him.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)The US Constitution provides for, and outlines the steps to impeachment, and yet he contends that a President is not subject to these laws.
Basically a no-brainer. Now we have to beat it into a few Republican brains.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)Kavanaugh is not qualified for the Supreme Court in my opinion.
Marthe48
(16,692 posts)He shouldn't be a dog catcher. Nobody, ever, is above the law.
BootinUp
(46,928 posts)dflprincess
(28,057 posts)and Justices William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and Lewis F. Powell.
Here's something that must make his head explode, William Rehnquist was also on the court at the time but recused himself because he had served as Attorney General earlier in Nixon's presidency. I doubt we'll see that kind of integrity from any of Trump's appointees (and it kills me to say anything good about Rehnquist.)
marble falls
(56,359 posts)Paladin
(28,204 posts)His nomination ought to be scuttled at the earliest possible opportunity.