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By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN
October 9, 2018 6:42 am
WASHINGTON (AP) A Supreme Court with a new conservative majority takes the bench as Brett Kavanaugh, narrowly confirmed after a bitter Senate battle, joins his new colleagues to hear his first arguments as a justice.
Kavanaugh will emerge Tuesday morning from behind the courtrooms red velvet curtains and take his seat alongside his eight colleagues. It will be a moment that conservatives have dreamed of for decades, with five solidly conservative justices on the bench.
Kavanaughs predecessor, Justice Anthony Kennedy, who retired in June, was a more moderate conservative and sometimes sided with the courts four liberal justices.
Kavanaugh, in contrast, is expected to be a more decidedly conservative vote, tilting the court right for decades and leaving Chief Justice John Roberts as the justice closest to the ideological middle.
With justices seated by seniority, President Donald Trumps two appointees will flank the Supreme Court bench, Justice Neil Gorsuch at one end and Kavanaugh at the other. Court watchers will be looking to see whether the new justice asks questions at arguments and, if so, what he asks. There will also be those looking for any lingering signs of Kavanaughs heated, partisan confirmation fight. But the justices, who often highlight their efforts to work together as a collegial body, are likely to focus on the cases before them.
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As the newest member of the court Kavanaugh will take on a few special jobs. He will take notes for the justices when they meet for private conferences. Hell also be the one to answer the door at those meetings if someone knocks to deliver something such as a justices coffee or forgotten glasses.
Hell also sit on the committee that oversees the courts cafeteria, which is open to the public. Chief Justice John Roberts has previously said that assignment is a way of bringing a new justice back down to Earth after the excitement of confirmation and appointment.
FUCK YOU......................maybe they can deliver a fucking beer, to sexual predator so he can feel at home.......................Fuck You Roberts and your other four lackeys......................
Ohiogal
(32,012 posts)This cretin is a bought-and-paid-for right wing extremist! I wish these journalists would quit soft-pedaling their language and tell it like it is!
Buns_of_Fire
(17,183 posts)"I don't want him sitting next to me."
Resolved by Chief Justce Roberts:
"Okay, Schlitz-Breath, go sit on the end. And don't burp in my direction."