Live blog of nomination | July 9, 2018 (with First Mondays)
We live-blogged with First Mondays as President Donald Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.
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From a liberal's perspective, Kennedy was a huge disappointment: Citizens United, McCutcheon, Shelby County, Heller, Twombly, Iqbal, Frederichs/Janus, Epic, Bush v. Gore... Yes, he was good on gay rights and on scaling back the applicability of the death penalty and life-without-parole sentences, but precious little else. Can this new nominee be any worse?
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I am extremely nervous about this since Masterpiece seemed to be a last ditched effort keep the peace when it came to balancing religious liberty and anti-discrimination laws. but with the new justice I'm deeply concerned that absent a federal ENDA Law I won't be protected
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Can I voice my displeasure with the "4/9 Justices will have been appointed by Presidents who lost the popular vote" statistic? Both of Bush's successful nominees were chosen in his second term (2005 and 2006), after he quite definitely won the popular vote in the 2004 election. Trump is the first popular vote loser to make an appointment to the Court since Benjamin Harrison. The real number is only going to be 2/9 if Trump can make a second successful nomination.
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For any new readers, here's our profile again on Kavanaugh (by Edith Roberts):
Potential nominee profile: Brett Kavanaugh - SCOTUSblog
SCOTUSblogWhen then-candidate Donald Trump released his first two lists of potential Supreme Court nominees in May and September of 2016, the omission of Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit drew comment. Kavanaugh had served for 10 years on a bench known as
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