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The circumstances of Justice

artappraiser — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 07:13:49 +0000

The circumstances of Justice Kennedy’s resignation must be investigated by the Senate Judiciary Committee before any replacement is considered. The Constitution does not give Trump the power to use underhanded means to induce Supreme Court resignations.https://t.co/S6m5oLg9mV
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) June 30, 2018

Kennedy's son compromised.

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:35:09 +0000

In reply to Palmer asks: was Kennedy compromised?

Kennedy's son compromised.

Better headline: Justice Kennedy's son was DeutscheBank lender who loaned Trump $1B for deals when no one else would https://t.co/Dtb5uc2015
— Indira Lakshmanan (@Indira_L) June 29, 2018

More media digging, here's

artappraiser — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:43:23 +0000

In reply to oooohh .... that's good.

More media digging, here's CNN with the "Trump courting Dem Senators" angle:

What Trump doesn’t say at campaign ralliesis that 3 Democrats voted to support Gorsuch and he’ll be asking for their votes to confirm the Kennedy replacement. Our story on Trump and Heitkamp: https://t.co/KZpSNgNkeW https://t.co/5NUD4NjHia
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) June 29, 2018

Inside the White House

artappraiser — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:13:18 +0000

In reply to Palmer asks: was Kennedy compromised?

Inside the White House Campaign to Get Kennedy to Retire

Its goal was to assure Justice Kennedy that his judicial legacy would be in good hands should he decide to step down at the end of the court’s term.

By ADAM LIPTAK and MAGGIE HABERMAN @ NYTimes.com 29 minutes ago

[....] There is reason to think, then, that Mr. Trump’s praise of Justice Kennedy was strategic.

Then, after Justice Gorsuch’s nomination was announced, a White House official singled out two candidates for the next Supreme Court vacancy: Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Judge Raymond M. Kethledge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati.

The two judges had something in common: They had both clerked for Justice Kennedy.

In the meantime, as the White House turned to stocking the lower courts, it did not overlook Justice Kennedy’s clerks. Mr. Trump nominated three of them to federal appeals courts: [....]

But they had a connection, one Mr. Trump was quick to note in the moments after his first address to Congress in February 2017. As he made his way out of the chamber, Mr. Trump paused to chat with the justice.

“Say hello to your boy,” Mr. Trump said. “Special guy.”

Mr. Trump was apparently referring to Justice Kennedy’s son, Justin. The younger Mr. Kennedy spent more than a decade at Deutsche Bank, eventually rising to become the bank’s global head of real estate capital markets, and he worked closely with Mr. Trump when he was a real estate developer, according to two people with knowledge of his role. [....]

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oooohh .... that's good.

barefooted — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:10:40 +0000

In reply to Inside the White House

oooohh .... that's good.

I'll bite. Was there

barefooted — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 22:34:03 +0000

In reply to Palmer asks: was Kennedy compromised?

I'll bite. Was there anything else that could have so effectively taken the public's attention off of the immigration fiasco?