Kavanaugh Squirms As Senator Reveals Big Money Behind His Nomination
Eric Boehlert
September 6, 2018 2:24 am
Trumps 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 Trumps Supreme Court shortlist.
Its 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 teams judicial vetting.
But Kavanaugh insisted, My personal experience of what I know is that President Trump made the decision.
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