Kavanaugh: Watergate tapes decision may have been wrong

[demmiblue]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested several years ago that the unanimous high court ruling in 1974 that forced President Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes, leading to the end of his presidency, may have been wrongly decided.

Kavanaugh was taking part in a roundtable discussion with other lawyers when he said at three different points that the decision in U.S. v. Nixon, which marked limits on a president’s ability to withhold information needed for a criminal prosecution, may have come out the wrong way.

A 1999 magazine article about the roundtable was part of thousands of pages of documents that Kavanaugh has provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of the confirmation process. The committee released the documents on Saturday.

Kavanaugh’s belief in robust executive authority already is front and center in his nomination by President Donald Trump to replace the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. The issue could assume even greater importance if special counsel Robert Mueller seeks to force Trump to testify in the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Read more: https://apnews.com/3ea406469d344dd8b2527aed92da6365

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Trump's firewall must not be confirmed or there will be no democracy. . . . nt

[erronis]

19. When it is operational, we won't be able to talk about the loss of democracy.

Still, there's hope. After 7 decades communist China has not totally stifled dissent. After 8 decades the bolsheviks lost power (and regained it albeit as a oligarchy.) Maybe the USofA will only need to go through the cleansing for a few decades before those titular heads lose theirs.

[madaboutharry]

2. He seems like a monarchist.

Where does "robust executive authority" belong in the 21st century? Kavanaugh is the worst kind of person to sit on the SC. I am thinking he doesn't believe in representative democracy.

[lastlib]

23. KavanaughBork.......

may he go the same way.......

This is reminiscent of "the King can do no wrong" mentality of the middle ages in Europe. We left that notion behind in 1776. The president of the United States is NOT ordained by God to rule over us--he is ELECTED BY us (at least, that was the theory before 2000...but that's a tangent) to SERVE us. WE do not serve HIM. He is subject to the law of the land, or the Constitution of the United States means NOTHING! Let him be indicted, tried and convicted in a court of law like any other citizen. Then, if Congress will not impeach him, he can be president from behind bars.

[dalton99a]

3. More proof that Kavanaugh is extreme right-wing

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

31. To the point that he has out-Borked Bork... he needs to be soundly rejected!!

[DeminPennswoods]

32. Political hack is a better description

He might have a law degree, but he is nothing more than a GOP political hack not much different from Devin Nunes.

[DownFromTheMountain]

4. I won't mince words:

Kavanaugh is a henchman, and ..wrong.

[turbinetree]

5. This is what the Federalist Society endorses................someone who thinks...........

that a former traitorous president that broke campaign finance laws at first and tried to smear the democratic party with break-in---------------------should have got a get out of jail card.................

And this "guy" sits on the bench presently, he thinks that a president that broke laws to defend and protect the Constitution first and foremost should get a 4 year pass just to break as many laws as possible...................time for some good old fashion protests................................this is just fucked up


He should be disbarred...........................he thinks it just fine and dandy to commit crimes ..................while being in the white house.............................what could possibly go wrong....................first thing that comes to my mind is being blackmail................and we have an orange POS that could be blackmailed right now...............

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[stuffmatters]

24. Federalist Soc perverts The Constitution as the Relig RW scours The Bible for loopholes

Two agents of The Koch Machine's lifelong war on our democracy, our moral decency. and just basic common sense.. Only difference from Koch Bros' previous campaigns for the 4 already sitting Koch owned SCOTUS judges, Kavanaugh is showing us that these
Koch Bros stooges like Kavanaugh and Putin's agenda are attached,with Trump as their paper clip in plain sight.

[turbinetree]

25. Yepper, spot on.......................and then there is right wing congress.............that is full

of these "Federalist Society pukes..................that have a utter disdain of the Constitution and the pre=amble "We the People".......................and moral decency and basic common sense..................they never had it ..................and this expose of this fascist nominee and past right wing nominee's is now being exposed..............I hope it is not to late..................we need to get into the streets...........................



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[Maraya1969]

6. He is an obvious pick to protect Trump from prosecution. Isn't that against some law?

There has to be some basis for his nomination being illegal if it was done for the sole purpose to protect the president against being held for crimes he committed.

[shraby]

7. Can I say it's for OBSTRUCTION of Mueller's investigation?

[Maraya1969]

11. Yes. If Mueller can get on him for doing this to obstruct justice!!!! That would fuck this whole

thing up. But I don't know if he could. Mueller could bring him in for questioning though.

[turbinetree]

8. You would think so.................because the orange one .................traitor

is looking at the possibly of breaking campaign finance laws when he paid of porn stars.............

There is only two reasons why this Federalist Society "guy" was chosen.................this and Roe..................

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[Ccarmona]

9. Yet Kavanaugh Turned Over Every Rock When Working with Ken Starr

To tag Bill Clinton with getting together with Monica Lewinsky when Starr’s original Investigation turned up empty. He’s the perfect GOP Hypocrite!

[Cosmocat]

17. Yep

We ever get a D potus, and Rs go after him/her, his tune will turn ...

[sandensea]

10. Persecuting a president over a blowjob, however, is just peachy is he's a Democrat.

Nothing lower than a politician in a judge's robes.

[Mc Mike]

12. Unfit. Unfitter and unfitter.

Like dRumpf. That guy started out a sloppy 4-f, and has been losing ground steadily ever since.

[Owl]

13. Piss on Kavanaugh.

[bluestarone]

14. If he gets confirmed it could be

The end of our democracy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RestoreAmerica2020]

20. Oh, he's getting confirmed...and, there is not one damn we can do about it, unless like every appoin

.ee..the odious fool in WH brings on board--he/she is either complicit, corrupt and or has connections to Kremlin..eventually they all implode in one way or another, end up resigning or quiting, or fires and in some cases indicted and or arrested. So in essence kavanaugh is just temporary,..like trump. We'll just have to see it all play out like a damn novela with all the drama y todo.

Again, how did we get this grifter as president?

[in2herbs]

15. If he gets confirmed, and if he and a majority on the USSC rule that tRump can't be subject to any

investigation or prosecution, will the effect of that decision flow down to the other conspirators including voiding the guilty pleas we already have?

[bucolic_frolic]

18. A wrecking-ball justice in Trump's mold

Turning the world upside down to suit their own world view without regard for precedent. Awful choice, illegitimately appointed because of Trump's stolen election. America is under seige.

[amb123]

21. Only Traitors oppose United State v. Richard Nixon

Only Traitors support Unlimited Presidential Power.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

30. Kavanaugh will always follow precedent, except when he doesn't.

To say a unanimous decision by the SCOTUS is wrong is the height of arrogance.

No wonder Trump nominated him.

[world wide wally]

22. Kavanaugh does not believe in the Constitution and he even says so.

The US Constitution provides for, and outlines the steps to impeachment, and yet he contends that a President is not subject to these laws.
Basically a no-brainer. Now we have to beat it into a few Republican brains.

[Sophia4]

26. I'm for checks and balances.

Kavanaugh is not qualified for the Supreme Court in my opinion.

[Marthe48]

27. This guy should not be on SCOTUS

He shouldn't be a dog catcher. Nobody, ever, is above the law.

[BootinUp]

28. Fuck democracy! I'm for Kavanagh on the SC!

[dflprincess]

29. So Kavanaugh thinks he knows more that Chief Justice Warren Burger

and Justices William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and Lewis F. Powell.

Here's something that must make his head explode, William Rehnquist was also on the court at the time but recused himself because he had served as Attorney General earlier in Nixon's presidency. I doubt we'll see that kind of integrity from any of Trump's appointees (and it kills me to say anything good about Rehnquist.)

[marble falls]

33. Soooo close to November. Lets remind all Republicans they will be facing voters eventually.

[Paladin]

34. Kavanaugh is nothing more than a ringer for trump in upcoming legal actions.

His nomination ought to be scuttled at the earliest possible opportunity.