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The Daily 202's Big Idea

Kavanaugh won’t go as far as Gorsuch in defending the judicial branch from Trump’s attacks

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, News, Daily News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who has spent much of his life as a Republican operative, claimed he stays out of politics.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

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202 for Friday, September 7th. In today's news, President Trump raises the prospect of impeachment at a rally in Montana.

0:17.0

American troops will stay in Syria indefinitely.

0:21.0

And Senators cut a deal to fight the opioid crisis.

0:27.0

But first, the big idea. Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court

0:36.6

confirmation hearings continued for a contentious and sometimes chaotic

0:40.6

third day on Thursday with President Trump the focus of questioning as

0:44.9

much as the nominee. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee including some

0:48.7

Republicans pressed Kavanaugh about the judge's expansive views of presidential power.

0:54.0

They focused in particular on his past writings that concluded civil suits

0:58.0

and criminal investigations of presidents would be better delayed until the

1:02.0

chief executive left office.

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And a newly surfaced email from Kavanaugh,

1:07.0

written when he was a top lawyer in George W Bush's White House,

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raised questions about whether he actually believes his statement

1:14.3

that the Supreme Court's landmark abortion decision Roe v. Wade is settled law.

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He said privately in a 2003 email that it is not.

1:24.0

Kavanaugh carefully picked his way through a minefield of queries and steadfastly refused

1:30.0

to engage with any criticism of the president who chose him.

1:33.3

He declined to comment, for instance, on Trump's personal attacks

1:36.4

against Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

1:38.6

or on the president saying that the Justice Department

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