Manchin to sit down with Kavanaugh next week

[turbinetree]

Source: Politico

By BURGESS EVERETT 07/23/2018 05:33 PM EDT Updated 07/23/2018 05:48 PM EDT

Brett Kavanaugh will meet with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) next week, signaling the Supreme Court nominee is beginning to woo Democrats in his confirmation bid.

Kavanaugh will meet with Manchin next Monday, according to a Manchin aide. Manchin is considered one of the Democrats most likely to back Kavanaugh, along with Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana. Those three red-state Democrats voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch last year.

Several other moderate Democrats are also angling to meet with Kavanaugh, even though Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has yet to meet with the nominee. A Heitkamp aide said she is working to set up a meeting with Kavanaugh but it hasn’t been finalized.

Typically rank and file members have waited for the party leader to secure a meeting with a Supreme Court nominee, though Schumer is already vowing to try to defeat Kavanaugh.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/23/manchin-kavanaugh-supreme-court-736246

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November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.......................vote

[Champion Jack]

1. Manchin will do what the Kochs tell him to do

Its what he does as a loyal member of ALEC

[turbinetree]

3. I am absolutely dumbfounded..................

November 2018 cannot get here fast enough...................vote

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. Very disappointing to hear... but not unexpected.

[babylonsister]

4. JUST SAY NO!!! Dammit, this should not be happening. nt

[onecaliberal]

5. Wouldn't be surprise to hear Manchin received "that" NRA $.

[Ohiogal]

6. No confirmation vote

Should be held until Mueller issues his report and proper measures have been taken. Hopefully after the midterms.

[YOHABLO]

7. Manchin: The Democratic Party's Judas.

[theaocp]

8. The best one can hope for is that Manchin will be rewarded by his voters

for voting with the Republicans. Should we take back the Senate, they'll do a 180 when they find him voting with the Democrats. Or they could expect him to keep with their "interests" (whatever they think a Democrat is supposed to stand for, overall) and punish him. I can't keep up with the gymnastics. I have no idea what red states expect from their Democratic reps.

[sandensea]

9. Senator Epipen's at it again.

I'd be almost as surprised to see him do the right thing when it really counts, than to see his daughter pry herself from the Big Pharma feeding through.

[Staph]

10. Manchin is meeting with voters and asking for opinions.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/manchin-holds-roundtable-west-virginia-voters-talk-kavanaugh/story?id=56723536

CHARLESTON, WV -- West Virginians, who attended a town hall Friday to discuss Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh with Sen. Joe Manchin, urged him to ask the judge about hot-button issues such as his past writings on prosecuting presidents and his views on government surveillance.

Manchin, a Democrat, who said he would meet with Kavanaugh within the next two weeks, held the roundtable discussion with about 25 local political activists and attorneys to solicit opinions on and questions for the president's nominee.

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Jon Mani, a Charleston attorney, told Manchin he was concerned about Kavanaugh’s argument in a 2011 Minnesota Law Review article that sitting presidents should not be subject to prosecution while in office.

“You look at his writings, his opinions, he’s very very behind almost, an imperial executive theory,” Mani said. “The president is exempt from lawsuits while in office. Can’t be indicted while in office. This is terrifying,” he added.

“We’ve heard a lot about that,” Manchin said, pledging that his legal advisors were gathering all the information they could about Kavanaugh’s views on the topic and that he was sure to ask him about it.

Manchin is also asking West Virginians for their opinions in an online poll -- https://www.manchin.senate.gov/tell-joe-about-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states

I had a chance to speak with one of Manchin's staff last week. He said that they are getting tons of phone calls, and many, many of them are concerned with Kavanaugh's take on preexisting conditions specifically and the ACA in general.

[Orsino]

11. Kabuki.

We all know what's coming.