Justice Kennedy asked Trump to put Kavanaugh on Supreme Court list, book says

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Source: Washington Post

Courts & Law
Justice Kennedy asked Trump to put Kavanaugh on Supreme Court list, book says

By Robert Barnes
November 21, 2019 at 3:03 p.m. EST

It was a historic moment in April 2017 when Supreme Court justice Anthony M. Kennedy presided over the ceremonial Rose Garden swearing-in for the court's new member, Neil M. Gorsuch: the first time a sitting justice was joined on the nation's highest court by one of his former law clerks.

But a secret meeting moments later in the White House was just as significant, according to a new book by Ruth Marcus, a Washington Post deputy editorial page editor.

Kennedy requested a private moment with President Trump to deliver a message about the next Supreme Court opening, Marcus reports. Kennedy told Trump he should consider another of his former clerks, Brett M. Kavanaugh, who was not on the president's first two lists of candidates.

"The justice's message to the president was as consequential as it was straightforward, and it was a remarkable insertion by a sitting justice into the distinctly presidential act of judge picking," Marcus writes in "Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover."
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Robert Barnes has been a Washington Post reporter and editor since 1987. He joined The Post to cover Maryland politics, and he has served in various editing positions, including metropolitan editor and national political editor. He has covered the Supreme Court since November 2006. Follow https://twitter.com/scotusreporter

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/justice-kennedy-asked-trump-to-put-kavanaugh-on-supreme-court-list-book-says/2019/11/21/3495f684-0b0f-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html

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This has been long suspected.

Hat tip, Joe.My.God:

BOOK: Justice Kennedy Told Trump To Pick Kavanaugh
November 21, 2019

https://www.joemygod.com/2019/11/book-justice-kennedy-told-trump-to-pick-kavanaugh/

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Justice Kennedy asked Trump to put Kavanaugh on Supreme Court list, book says

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[Ilsa]

1. Screw Justice Kennedy.

And his unethical banker son.

[pangaia]

2. Thanks a shitload Tony !

[jvill]

3. So Justice I Like Beer and Drunk Chicks...

... didn't earn his current job without help from the Old White Peoples Entitlement Club, either, eh?

There were no women, non-Opus Dei, people of color on Kennedy's radar, huh?

[gab13by13]

4. Rod Bloganovich is in jail

for doing the same thing. I bet the good justice got some favor for retiring.

[ancianita]

5. Kennedy is in a long line of corrupt justices, some of whom brought us corporate personhood.

The Federalist Society would be condemned by the original federalists.

[erronis]

7. That's the pattern. Take a wholly acceptable term and trash it. Federalists - Federalists Society

All in the same 1984 mode - WAR IS PEACE/ FREEDOM IS SLAVERY /IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Repuglicon Patriotism -> Treason

Libertarian Capitalism -> Plutocracy and serfdom

Tea Party -> Undemocratic

Flag Lapels -> Flip them and they are the Russian bear


Isn't there actually a philosophy about how to poison terms so they become toxic?

The (r)epublicons have certainly tried with most of the democratic US ones, and they have succeeded with their own - GOP

As the 'trump' labels are falling off all of his fake buildings.

[ancianita]

8. All the worse for this country is the "artificial" status corporations ONCE had, to NOW

getting equal f'g protection under the Constitution by SCOTUS by conferring "personhood" on them -- without ONE explicit SCOTUS ruling that EVER made it so.

SCOTUS must be challenged by humans, we who are now not only swimming in the toxic "perception management" by political imposters, Putin, Trump, Giuliani and all the GOP, but also being expected to think corporations and political scofflaws are the new ruling standard in a nation of laws.

Every. Generation.

No one gets to perception manage evidentiary truth. No one.

[beachbumbob]

6. remind me again, where did Kennedy;s son work?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

12. DeutscheBank

which is significant because that is the bank that laundered trumpie's Russian mob money. All the other banking institutions in the US refused to work with trumpie, so he turned to DB for help.

[CousinIT]

9. As I understand it, this was the condition for Kennedy to retire. It was a dirty deal. n/t

[Mc Mike]

10. This is the surest sign Kennedy was also Opus Dei.

[budkin]

11. The moment democracy died

We're going to be paying for this for decades...