Who Is Judge Brett Kavanaugh? - 7.10
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2018
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Sean dedicates this show to digging into the person behind President Trump's pick to fill the open Supreme Court seat created by the retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Judge Brett Kavanaugh has an impressive record in the tradition of Justice Scalia. Listen as Newt Gingrich, Professor Alan Dershowitz and Oliver North explain why Kavanaugh is such a great choice. The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Let not your heart be troubled. |
| 0:01.8 | You are listening to the Sean Hannity Radio Show podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | And that I speak for everyone. |
| 0:07.9 | Thank you for everything you've done to protect our nation's great legal heritage. |
| 0:15.2 | In keeping with President Reagan's legacy, I do not ask about a nominee's personal opinions. |
| 0:22.6 | What matters is not a judge's political views, but whether they can set aside those views |
| 0:29.2 | to do what the law and the Constitution require. |
| 0:34.4 | I am pleased to say that I have found without doubt such a person. |
| 0:41.6 | Tonight it is my honor and privilege to announce that I will nominate Judge Brett Kappenaw |
| 0:49.1 | to the United States Supreme Court. |
| 0:52.3 | I've spent my career in public service from the executive branch and the White House to |
| 0:56.9 | the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. |
| 0:59.7 | I have served with 17 other judges, each of them, a colleague and a friend. |
| 1:06.7 | My judicial philosophy is straightforward. |
| 1:09.4 | A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law. |
| 1:14.9 | A judge must interpret statutes as written and a judge must interpret the Constitution |
| 1:20.2 | as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent. |
| 1:26.8 | That was the President making his big announcement about Judge Kappenaw as his nominee to replace |
| 1:33.3 | Anthony Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court. |
| 1:36.2 | I don't know whether I start with the insanity of the left. |
| 1:39.8 | And let me also start by saying it didn't matter who Donald Trump chose. |
| 1:46.1 | The same comments, the same lies, the same hysteria, the same politics. |
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