Kavanaugh gets questionnaires for confirmation hearing

Donald John Trump Franken offers Dems a line of questioning for Kavanaugh's 'weirdly specific bit of bulls---' Midterm primary turnout in California highest since 1998 Trump Jr. mocks the 'resistance' over 'baby blimp' in London MORE 's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been provided with questionnaires to fill out ahead of his confirmation hearing, Senate aides announced Saturday. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday sent several forms to Kavanaugh requesting various biographical information from him and details on his published writings and statements as well as financial assets.

Catholics rock courthouse

Even before President Trump announced his nomination Monday of federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill departing Justice Anthony Kennedy's slot on the Supreme Court, the foul scent of anti-Catholicism began seeping into public commentary. In particular, an article Monday morning that quickly earned ire in the choir came from Daily Beast writer Jay Michaelson.

Millions from anonymous donors to influence Kavanaugh fightAssociated Press

Millions of dollars from anonymous donors are helping shape the fight over President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee as Republicans and Democrats undertake a bruising battle for ideological control of the nation's loftiest tribunal. Even before Trump's announcement Monday that he had picked Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, advocacy groups had begun lining up for and against the nomination and said they would spend heavily to influence the outcome of what's expected to be a tumultuous confirmation process.

A Republican president nominated a conservative judge. Why is this so traumatic?Los Angeles Times

To the editor: UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, in an attempt to appear even-handed in "the matter of bias" on federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, seems to assent that bias is part of human nature and that "no one suggests that our knowledge about [a nominee's] general views a makes them impermissibly biased."

As Supreme Court battle roils DC, suburban voters shrug

It stands to shift the direction of the nation's highest court for decades, but President Donald Trump's move to fill a Supreme Court vacancy has barely cracked the consciousness of some voters in the nation's top political battlegrounds. Even among this year's most prized voting bloc - educated suburban women - there's no evidence that a groundswell of opposition to a conservative transformation of the judicial branch, which could lead to the erosion or reversal of Roe v.

Hillary: Forget the 1950s. This Kavanaugh character’s taking us back to the 1850s.

A fine entry here for the SCOTUS chapter of "Sh*t Liberals Say" and a fine note on which to end the week via the Daily Caller , as it's a preview of the hysteria to come and just a taste of the hysteria that'll greet a true culture-warrior nominee like Barrett down the road. It's also a reminder of why the left distrusts Hillary.

Michigan senators say they will vote against Trump pick for U.S. Supreme Court

Both of Michigan's United States senators announced today they will oppose President Trump's choice to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. The news that Democrats Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters will oppose Judge Brett Kavanaugh 's nomination is hardly a surprise.

Fear not! Brett Kavanaugh knows at least three women. | Opinion

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Judge Brett Kavanaugh with after he nominated him to the Supreme Court during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House July 9, 2018 in Washington, D.C. I don't know why you would want a condensed transcript of the Kavanaugh announcement, as it was pretty short, but you are a busy gentlewoman and you make your own rules, sir. So here it is! East Room of the White House, PRIME TIME, Because We Have All Tacitly Agreed to Let the President Be the News Whenever He Wants, But Confusing Some "Bachelorette" Viewers, Monday Night.

The Affirmative Action Silo

One of the hidden sources of division in the United States is the conceptual silo: the habits of thought, jurisprudence and reporting that segregates issues that feed on each other into separate debates, news reports and court cases. The segregation of debates and decisions about affirmative action, on the one hand, and mass incarceration, on the other, is exemplary in this regard and worth digging into, as I do below.

Millions from anonymous donors to influence Kavanaugh fight

Millions of dollars from anonymous donors are helping shape the fight over President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee as Republicans and Democrats undertake a bruising battle for ideological control of the nation's loftiest tribunal. Even before Trump's announcement Monday that he had picked Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, advocacy groups had begun lining up for and against the nomination and said they would spend heavily to influence the outcome of what's expected to be a tumultuous confirmation process.

Supreme Court could return abortion debate to the states

Anticipating renewed fights over abortion, some governors and state lawmakers already are searching for ways to enhance or dismantle the right in their constitutions and laws. President Donald Trump's nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court has raised the possibility that a conservative court majority could weaken or overturn the 1973 Roe v.