Posted on 07/07/2018 6:16:30 PM PDT by springwater13
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, told President Trump this past week that Judges Raymond M. Kethledge and Thomas M. Hardiman presented the fewest obvious obstacles to being confirmed to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court, according to Republican officials briefed on the conversation.
While careful not to directly make the case for any would-be justice, Mr. McConnell made clear in multiple phone calls with Mr. Trump and the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, that the lengthy paper trail of another top contender, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, would pose difficulties for his confirmation.
Mr. McConnell is concerned about the volume of the documents that Judge Kavanaugh has created in his 12 years on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as well as in his roles as White House staff secretary under President George W. Bush and assistant to Kenneth W. Starr, the independent counsel who investigated President Bill Clinton.
On Saturday afternoon, Mr. Trump was undecided about his pick — which he has said he will reveal in a prime-time address on Monday night — according to three people in contact with him. He went back and forth every few hours between the four options in front of him, with Judge Kethledge getting the least attention, people familiar with his thinking said. It is similar to how Mr. Trump has approached most of his self-imposed deadlines for appointees, toggling between choices until nearly the last moment.
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>> The choice for SCOTUS should be purely the purview of President Trump <<
Well, you seem to call for repeal of the “advise and consent” provision of the Constitution.
OK. Have it your way. You’re entitled to your preferences.
But I’ll let you in on a little secret:
It ain’t gonna happen.
>> energetically being uninformed <<
Great phrase!
(And it perfectly describes a bunch of folks around here.)
I thought Kavanaugh was the least favorite around here, now all of a sudden he’s the favorite simply because McConnell (if this article is to be believed) recommended against him?
Telling Obama “You will not fill this seat” and being able to maintain that for nearly a year, going nuclear to confirm Gorsuch, etc. can hardly be described as “feckless.”
Right. It is unreal to me how many people were here throughout the Gorsuch nomination fight that now apparently are completely unaware that McConnell already invoked the nuclear option and was successful in doing so.
President Trump has gotten a record number of judicial appointees confirmed for the time he has been in office despite unprecedented obstruction by the Democrats in requiring the full debate time on nearly every appointee - this is no small accomplishment and could not have been done without an extraordinary amount of effort and time devoted to doing. This not a debatable point. With all due respect this comment of yours is not even remotely close to being accurate.
Republicans confirming Trump's court nominees at record pace
YOU STAY OUTTA THIS, YERTL!!
gonna get called a globalist rino for telling unpopular truths . . .
I get it, you like Mitch McConnell. Now, you can resume kissing his you know what!
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