After a wave of controversies, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt left the agency.
That’s not the only job President Trump now has to fill. The President said he will announce his choice to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court on July 9, and the White House is rushing to meet that deadline. One of the leading contenders could be Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh. For 12 years, Kavanaugh has sat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. On July 3, The New York Times reported that he’s President Trump’s leading candidate. But Kavanaugh is not without baggage.
While Judge Kavanaugh, 53, has long been thought to be the front-runner and a favorite of Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, he has in recent days faced mounting opposition from social conservatives for aspects of his résumé.
His work in the George W. Bush administration; the perception that his opposition in his judicial opinions to abortion and Obamacare was insufficiently adamant; and even a 1991 clerkship with Judge Alex Kozinski, a former federal Ninth Circuit judge who retired last year after accusations of sexual misconduct, have all come into question.
Democrats in the Senate have called for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to delay the vote on a Supreme Court nominee until after the midterm elections in November. But that seems to be an unlikely outcome. Those seeking to block the eventual nominee have targeted Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine.
Even though the president issued an executive order to ostensibly stop children from being separated at the border, the issue continues to be controversial. On July 5, the president tweeted his hopes for immigration policy, but it wasn’t immediately clear what he wanted to see happen.
Interview:
https://the1a.org/shows/2018-07-06/friday-news-roundup-domestic
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