On Monday, President Trump announced that he chose Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the United States Supreme Court. Kavanaugh is from Bethesda, Maryland, and is well known in conservative legal circles.
“He is a committed textualist and originalist, one whose time on the bench has revealed a unique ability to apply these principles to legal facts. He deeply believes in the constitutional separation of powers as a means for ensuring governmental accountability and protecting individual liberty. From the start of his career, he’s applied the Constitution faithfully, even when that made him a lonely voice. He has done so with particular tenacity on the issue that matters most to the president: taking power away from unelected bureaucrats and returning it to elected officials.” J.D. Vance in the Wall Street Journal as reported by Politico
As a member of the DC court of appeals for 12 years, Kavanaugh dissented from the majority in the case of the illegal immigrant who wanted an abortion. He stated that allowing her to have such a procedure was “a new right for unlawful immigrant minors in U.S. Government detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand.” By the time the Supreme Court got the case and denied her request, she already had the abortion.
As a judge who holds tightly to the Constitution, Kavanaugh told the White House audience that a judge should “interpret the law, not make the law.”
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Kavanaugh is active in the Catholic church, serving meals and tutoring students. He graduated from Yale and Yale law school, and has taught at Harvard and other schools. He tutors children, and coaches girls basketball. His wife Ashley is a former secretary to George W Bush.
One criticism of Kavanaugh came from him granting an atheist standing in a court case against the Pledge of Allegiance, according to The Daily Wire.  Critics also say that it was Kavanaugh whose decision to call Obamacare a “tax” that allowed Justice Roberts to uphold the disastrous healthcare program.
The nomination was a disappointment for those standing for an overturn of Roe v Wade. They hoped that Trump would choose Amy Barrett. But she has only been a judge for a year, so had few decisions with which to weigh her abilities. Kavanaugh may be “unreliable” in an attempt to overturn the long standing decision, but it will depend upon the case, and how he interprets the Constitution in light of it.
All in all, people who know Brett Kavanaugh say that he is certainly Conservative in spite of his many liberal friends. He served as a clerk for Justice Kennedy, and served under former special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. He actually helped write the Controversial Starr Report which resulted in Clinton’s impeachment. He is not a fan of the Clintons.
H/T: Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children
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