Judge Brett Kavanaugh started making the rounds in Washington Tuesday, meeting with senators who will decide whether he gets to join the Supreme Court. Some Democrats are already vowing to try and block his nomination. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford reports.
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh makes the rounds on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CBSNewYork) — President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat headed to Capitol Hill to meet with lawmakers on Tuesday. Federal Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh is an established conservative judge who has written roughly 300 opinions as a judge on the D.C. circuit. He’s making the rounds and meeting with Republican lawmakers, but he’s already facing a lot of opposition ahead of his confirmation hearings. Kavanaugh posed for a photo-op Tuesday morning with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Mike Pence hours after his nomination . “I think the president made an outstanding nomination and we look forward to the confirmation process and it will unfold over the next few weeks,” McConnell said. “As the president said last night, Judge Brett Kavanaugh is quite simply the most qualified and most deserving nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States,” Pence added. Democratic lawmakers, promising to prevent his confirmation, gathered Tuesday morning outside the Supreme Court. “Now is the time to fight, now. Now is the time for American people to make their voices heard,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Schumer pointed to a 2009 article, where Kavanaugh argued “… we should not burden a sitting president with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecution.” “At a time when we have the Mueller investigation, Judge Kavanaugh is way at the extreme,” Schumer said. The president took to Twitter earlier Tuesday morning, saying the “Supreme Court pick getting GREAT REVIEWS.” Thank you to all of my great supporters, really big progress being made. Other countries wanting to fix crazy trade deals. Economy is ROARING. Supreme Court pick getting GREAT REVIEWS. New Poll says Trump, at over 90%, is the most popular Republican in history of the Party. Wow! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 10, 2018 The tweet comes hours after his primetime address announcing Kavanaugh as his choice to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy . “There is no one in America more qualified for this position and no one more deserving,” Trump said during the announcement. “A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law,” said Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh, 53, who was joined by his wife and two young daughters, has supported conservative issues ranging from gun rights to anti-abortion cases and sided against net neutrality and many Obama-era EPA regulations. “If confirmed by the Senate, I will keep an open mind in every case,” he said. Getting confirmed will be tough, though. His nomination is expected to set off a fierce battle in the Senate, where Republicans hold a thin majority and Democrats are promising to put up a fight. Kavanaugh’s potential appointment would solidify a conservative majority on the court. “President Trump, with the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh, has fulfilled or is fulfilling two of his campaign promises,” said Schumer. “First, to undo a women’s reproductive freedom, second, to undo ACA. So I will oppose him with everything I’ve got.” Kavanaugh was also on President George W. Bush’s legal team in the 2000 election recount and the Kenneth Starr investigation that led to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment. The Senate is expected to vote on his nomination in the fall.
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President Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Meets With Lawmakers
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(CBS News) — In a lengthy, freewheeling speech Thursday in Great Falls, Montana, on Thursday, President Trump spent the vast majority of the hour-plus speech hitting on familiar themes: trade, taxes, immigration, protests by NFL players, the economy, the press, better relations with Russia and North Korea, his proposed “space force,” and the Supreme Court vacancy. The president once again promised to appoint a justice to replace the retiring Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy. Mr. Trump said Kennedy had decided to leave the High Court because he knew the president would pick a stellar replacement. Mr. Trump did not mention former EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s resignation, which happened only hours earlier. Mr. Trump was in Montana to campaign for Republican candidates, including at-large Rep. Greg Gianforte and U.S. Senate candidate Matt Rosendale. Toward the start of the speech, Mr. Trump concentrated his fire on Democratic Montana Sen. Jon Tester, who is leading Rosendale in the polls despite the state’s Republican lean. “You deserve a senator who actually votes like he’s from Montana,” told the crowd after criticizing Tester at length. Tester earned the president’s ire for helping lead the fight against his onetime nominee for Veterans Affairs secretary, Dr. Ronny Jackson . Mr. Trump called Jackson a “beautiful person” who did not really want to be VA secretary but accepted the nomination out of a sense of duty. “Tester doesn’t share your values,” Mr. Trump said. “Jon Tester showed his true colors with his shameful, dishonest attacks on a great man.” Mr. Trump said he felt guilty for nominating for Jackson, who withdrew his nomination amid questions of ethical lapses involving drinking and prescribing medication. “I put him into the world of politics,” Mr. Trump said. “How vicious is the world!” Mr. Trump also took time to attack his Democratic rival for the presidency in 2016, Hillary Clinton, who he said gets “special treatment under the Justice Department.” The crowd responded with excited chants of “lock her up,” a common refrain on the 2016 campaign trail. But Clinton and Tester weren’t the only Democrats who drew fire from Mr. Trump on Thursday. He also mocked former Vice President Joe Biden, California Rep. Maxine Waters, and repeatedly referred to Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.” Mr. Trump noted that he had been criticized for referring to Warren as Pocahontas, a reference to Warren’s claimed Native American ancestry. But he also said the attacks were working, and said he would buy her a genetics testing kit should he ever face her in a presidential debate. In the process, he also mocked the “Me Too” movement, saying that he would be considerate as he pushed her to take it. “Pocahontas, I apologize,” Mr. Trump said. “To you, I apologize. To the fake one, I won’t. ” The president also attacked Democrats for their opposition to his immigration policies. And he insisted that Waters, an outspoken critic of the president, had a “low IQ.” “Democrats want anarchy,” Mr. Trump said. “They really do.” Mr. Trump also frequently complained of trade deficits while touting the good performance of the economy. He said the European Union and China had been taking advantage of the U.S. but said that he was in the process of correcting any trade imbalances. “The war was lost” on trade “many years ago,” Mr. Trump said, but now “we’re going to win it.” Mr. Trump’s rally came just after EPA administrator Pruitt resigned Thursday . Mr. Trump did not mention Pruitt Thursday. Mr. Trump accepted Pruitt’s resignation in a tweet and said that Pruitt’s EPA deputy Andrew Wheeler will take over his position starting Monday. (© 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
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Trump At Montana Rally: ‘Democrats Want Anarchy,’ Mocks ‘Me Too’ Movement, Waters, Warren
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