Title: Justice on Trial Pdf The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
Justice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme Court building on June 27, 2018, and traveled incognito to the White House to inform President Donald Trump that he was retiring, setting in motion a political process that his successor, Brett Kavanaugh, would denounce three months later as a "national disgrace" and a "circus".
Justice on Trial, the definitive insider's account of Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court, is based on extraordinary access to more than 100 key figures - including the president, justices, and senators - in that ferocious political drama.
The Trump presidency opened with the appointment of Neil Gorsuch to succeed the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. But the following year, when Trump drew from the same list of candidates for his nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, the justice being replaced was the swing vote on abortion, and all hell broke loose.
The judicial confirmation process, on the point of breakdown for 30 years, now proved utterly dysfunctional. Unverified accusations of sexual assault became weapons in a ruthless campaign of personal destruction, culminating in the melodramatic hearings in which Kavanaugh's impassioned defense resuscitated a nomination that seemed beyond saving.
The Supreme Court has become the arbiter of our nation's most vexing and divisive disputes. With the stakes of each vacancy incalculably high, the incentive to destroy a nominee is nearly irresistible. The next time a nomination promises to change the balance of the Court, Hemingway and Severino warn, the confirmation fight will be even uglier than Kavanaugh's.
A good person might accept that nomination in the naive belief that what happened to Kavanaugh won't happen to him because he is a good person. But it can happen, it does happen, and it just happened. The question is whether America will let it happen again.
You’re a Trump nominee and Trump fights! I just bought this book on my Kindle today! Reading it reminded me of the rage and the grief that I felt watching despicable people bear false witness to try and ruin a good man. One of my favorite lines is when a WH aide reminded Kavanaugh that he was a Trump nominee and “Trump fights.” Heck yeah he does! Really enjoyed the book.Could not put it down.. This would be an unbelievable fiction, it is sad that it is not Fiction, but what really happened in our country.. I have to admire what Justice Kavanaugh had to go through and still wanted to serve our Country..Curious what will happen when President Trump nominates the next Justice...A great read.. Swamp..What actually happened I devoured this book on release day. It contained so many NEW insightful stories regarding the Kavanaugh hearings, as well as the background on judicial nomination fights that really led to this watershed moment. Refreshing to read that Amy Coney Barrett was almost the pick, god willing she is the pick to replace RBG.
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