DN! Kavanaugh: Ian Millhiser Think Progress, David Cole ACLU, Cecile Richards, LGBT, ACA
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*Who Is Brett Kavanaugh? Inside the Right-Wing History of Trump's Supreme Court Nominee,* Democracy Now! July 10.
President Trump has nominated federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the high court. Kavanaugh has deep ties to the Republican Party and will push the Supreme Court further right if he is confirmed.
>FULL TRANSCRIPTS at Links Below* of guest interviews..
- VIDEO Interview, IAN MILLHISER, Center for American Progress Senior Fellow, Editor, Think Progress.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/10/who_is_brett_kavanaugh_inside_the
President Trump has nominated federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the high court.
Kavanaugh has deep ties to the Republican Party and will push the Supreme Court further right if he is confirmed.
Kavanaugh served as a senior aide under President George W. Bush in the White House Counsel’s Office.
He has similar credentials to Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Both clerked for Anthony Kennedy, and both are backed by the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation, who drew up a list for Trump in 2016 of suitable right-wing judges to consider for the Supreme Court.
- We speak with Ian Millhiser, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the editor of ThinkProgress Justice. His latest piece is headlined “Who is Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s pick to replace Anthony Kennedy?”
*Lives Are At Stake: The Struggle to Stop Trump’s Right-Wing Takeover of the Supreme Court: Women, LGBT, ACA*
- VIDEO Interviews, "Women's Reproductive Rights, ACA Heathcare, LGBT, More." DAVID COLE, National Legal Director ACLU, Georgetown University Law Ctr.; CECILE RICHARDS, fmr. President Planned Parenthood; FATIMA GOSS GRAVES, Pres. & CEO National Women's Law Ctr.; RACHEL TIVEN, CEO Lambda Legal.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/10/lives_are_at_stake_the_struggle
Activists and organizers around the country are mobilizing against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who needs a simple majority of 51 votes in the Senate to be confirmed. If Kavanaugh fills Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat, it will likely create the most conservative court the United States has seen since the 1930s.
President Trump has nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the Supreme Court. While running for president, Trump openly vowed to only nominate justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade.
Last year, Judge Brett Kavanaugh ruled against an undocumented teenager who sought to have an abortion while in federal detention. He said allowing the abortion would make the government “complicit” in something that is morally objectionable.
- We speak with Cecile Richards, former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund; David Cole, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union; Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center; and Rachel Tiven, CEO of Lambda Legal.
- VIDEO, Interview, DAVID COLE, ACLU National Legal Director, Prof. Georgetown University Law Center.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/10/aclus_david_cole_on_the_critical
If President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed, it could lead to major rollbacks of civil rights, environmental regulations, gun control measures, voting rights and reproductive rights, including possibly overturning Roe v. Wade. Brett Kavanaugh has also argued that sitting presidents should be shielded from criminal or civil investigations. - We speak with David Cole, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University Law Center. His most recent book is “Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law.