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This chapter and Chapter A should perhaps be augmented-a good deal over overlap.
Though the media has lost the scent of it, it’s clear why Kavanaugh was chosen when many other severe conservatives on the Federalist Society list would have been much easier lifts: Kav is the guy Trump chose to protect him from the Russia probe. So far Kavanaugh is not doing anything to reassure us that he is in any way independent of the Trump Russia House-quite the opposite.
But the media has largely taken its eye off the ball. Indeed, during the confirmatoin fight the MSM acted like there was something wrong if a Democrat voiced other concerns besides the sexual assault allegations-as if this shows the concern over the allegations was somehow fake. As if I can’t have multiple reasons for opposing the illegitimate ‘Supreme Court Justice’ like: he’s a credibly accused sexual assaulter, serial perjurer, partisan hack, a trafficker in stolen Dem Senate emails-the GOP didn’t need the Russians to show them how to weaponize hacked emails, who was chosen to protect Trump from the Russia probe.
But the media acts like the fact that there are other good reasons besides being an accused sexual predator proves that you don’t really care about sexual assault-you can only have one major objection or you must hold your piece.
Indeed, there was collusion between Trump and Anthony Kennedy-who were seen talking on the WH lawn during an event to win support for Neil Gorsuch-who despite what the GOP says-that we Democrats accuse very conservative SJC nominee of sexual assault, no one accused of being a sexual assaulter, not even once.
Now that Kavanaugh has been illegitimately plowed through there is new news about the Trump-Kenndy pact. it is more important that ever that we get to the bottom of what really happened. Trouble is the media has completely gone to sleep on this story.
As for the idea that Kavanaugh was chosen to protect Trump from Russia, this is apparently also the working theory of one of Roger Stone’s aides who are in the crosshairs of the Mueller probe.
“The Roger Stone aide who is mounting a constitutional challenge to special counsel Robert Mueller wants to take his case to the Supreme Court and feels “great” that Justice Brett Kavanaugh will be on the bench to, hopefully, deal a major blow to the Russia investigation.”
Andrew Miller previously worked as an aide to Stone, a longtime Trump ally who is under scrutiny in the Russia investigation. Miller was subpoenaed earlier this year to testify before the special counsel’s grand jury. Instead of complying, he waged a legal battle to invalidate Mueller’s authority to act as a prosecutor. A federal judge ruled against him, holding him in contempt of court for failing to testify, and he has appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.”
Asked how he feels about Kavanaugh’s presence on the court, as someone who might be sympathetic to his case, Miller said, “I feel nothing but great. I’m cool as a cucumber now.”
Miller made the comments on a radio show Tuesday morning, when Kavanaugh heard his first oral arguments as a newly minted justice. The program on WBEN in Buffalo, New York, was hosted by former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo, a staunch Mueller critic who has been questioned as part of the investigation and is partially funding Miller’s legal team.”
The co-conspirators interviewing the co-conspirators…
“Earlier in the show, Miller’s attorney said he hoped to take the case to the Supreme Court and predicted that a majority of the justices would support his argument against Mueller’s authority, if they decided to take the case.”
The probability that Kavanaugh and his colleagues on the court would get to hear Miller’s challenge of Mueller anytime soon is a stretch.
“For the case to reach the Supreme Court, Miller would have to lose at the appellate court first. His case is scheduled to be heard by three appellate judges on November 8, and a decision would come later.”
Kavanaugh would be “very good on this issue,” Miller’s attorney Paul Kamenar said on WBEN.
“He would be a good ally,” Kamenar said of Kavanaugh, “because he has talked about these cases before in terms of presidential power and limiting the power of the government and has written about this very issue of the constitutionality of the independent counsel.”
“Kavanaugh previously worked for independent counsel Ken Starr, whose investigation of President Bill Clinton in the 1990s led to Clinton’s impeachment. But years later, Kavanaugh shifted his views and struck a much more hostile tone against independent prosecutors.”
He didn’t shift his views but rather partisan control of the WH shifted.
It wasn’t actually ‘years later’-one year after pushing Clinton into a deliberate perjury trap-everything the GOP says is projection like when they claim Mueller wants to push Trump into a perjury trap-Kavanaugh suggested Nixon got a raw deal being forced to hand over his tapes. So there was no conversion-just the President in question had a little R rather than a little D next to his name.
UPDATE: This did not ultimately pan out for Andrew Miller as his case never made it to the Supreme Court. Regarding the idea that Kavanaugh was chosen to protect Trump against the Russia investigation it’s important to appreciate the extent to which with Trump everything old-Nixon-is new again. Nixon also had a conservative court-one of his first acts after winning the 1968 election-with a little help from Diem and Anna Chennault-was to bully Abe Fortas into retiring who ended up ruling against him 9-0 on the tapes though you wonder if there is this amount of integrity in today’s Trump-Kavnaaugh Court. John Roberts certainly wants us to believe there is but if it comes to that will it be 9-0? Or would it be closer to 5-4? The next 18 months are going to be interesting…