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DonViejo

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Thu Sep 6, 2018, 09:16 AM Sep 2018

Kavanaugh Squirms As Senator Reveals Big Money Behind His Nomination

Eric Boehlert

September 6, 2018 2:24 am

Trump’s extremist Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, tried to play dumb at his Wednesday confirmation hearing about the secretive network of wealthy conservative donors who hand-picked him to be on Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist.

It’s been widely reported that Trump promised to choose his Supreme Court nominees from a list approved by the Federalist Society, a right-wing legal activist group with a huge influence on the GOP.

But rather than acknowledge this, Kavanaugh told a disbelieving Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) that Trump was really the one in charge of the nomination process.

Whitehouse asked Kavanaugh about a comment from White House Counsel Don McGahn that the Federalist Society had effectively been “in-sourced” to the Trump team’s judicial vetting.

But Kavanaugh insisted, “My personal experience of what I know is that President Trump made the decision.”

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