President Trump on Monday nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a politically connected member of Washington’s conservative legal establishment, to fill Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s seat on the Supreme Court.
Kavanaugh’s selection will galvanize Democrats and Republicans in the months before the midterm elections. Moments after the announcement, the Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, declared, “I will oppose Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination with everything I have.” Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who leads the barest of Republican majorities, had expressed misgivings about his path to confirmation, but said he was a “superb choice.”
Dan and Amy got reaction to the nomination from Randy Barnett, a Georgetown Law Professor and author of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People:
John Malcolm is a Vice President for the Heritage Foundation’s Institute for Constitutional Government and Director of the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. He also joined Dan and Amy with reaction to the pick of Brett Kavanaugh: