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Last Monday night, President Donald Trump announced Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Over the coming weeks, we will get to witness a circus with politicians and the media competing with each other to see who can say the most outrageous thing about the candidate nominated and highlight who they would have nominated. We will then witness the main event – the hearings in the Senate where Kavanaugh will be asked questions with an agenda and a bias. Below are 6 things he (or any future nominee) should say, but will he? Ideology The folks...

While Democrats in the upper chamber – including Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, both of which called for blocking former President George W. Bush’s nominations – have slammed the GOP for its decision not to consider a nominee until after a new president is elected, Democrats have not always held that stance. The Democrat-controlled Senate passed a resolution in 1960 preventing a recess appointment, much to the dismay of Republicans. As first reported by The Washington Post – S.RES. 334, also known as Expressing the Sense of the Senate That The President Should Not...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:July 1, 2005CONTACT: Amber Hildebrand, (202) 393-2100 "I am confident that President Bush will name a replacement for Justice O'Connor who has the same judicial philosophy as Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas" ~Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council Washington, D.C. - Family Research Council thanks Justice O'Connor, the first woman on the United States Supreme Court, for her nearly twenty-four years of public service. "The Family Research Council often found itself on the opposite side of her most controversial decisions," said Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council. "This past week Justice O'Connor sided with judicial...