Justice Kennedy was schmoozed off Court with the promise that Kavanaugh would get it. Kavanaugh is compromised and has a conflict of interest regarding anything to do with tRump.
On October 20, 1973, Solicitor General Bork was instrumental in the 'Saturday Night Massacre' when U.S. President Richard Nixon ordered the firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox following Cox's request for tapes of his Oval Office conversations. Nixon initially ordered U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson resigned rather than carry out the order. Richardson's top deputy, Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus also considered the order "fundamentally wrong"[15] and resigned, making Bork Acting Attorney General. When Nixon reiterated his order, Bork complied and fired Cox. In his posthumously published memoirs, Bork claimed Nixon promised him the next seat on the Supreme Court if he carried out the order[16], though Bork didn't take the offer seriously as he believed that Watergate had left Nixon too politically compromised to appoint another justice. Bork claimed he carried out the order under pressure from Nixon's attorneys and intended to resign immediately afterwards, but was convinced by Richardson and Ruckelshaus to stay on for the good of the Justice Department.[16] Bork remained Acting Attorney General until the appointment of William B. Saxbe on January 4, 1974.[17] Nixon would never get the chance to carry out his promise to Bork, as the next Supreme Court vacancy came after Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford assumed the presidency, with Ford instead nominating John Paul Stevens.
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