After Stealing SCOTUS Seat, GOP Blasts Dems for Partisan Opposition to Kavanaugh
By Margaret Hartmann July 10, 2018
The battle over Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s replacement started in earnest on Monday night as President Trump announced that he was going with the least surprising, and perhaps the safest pick for his replacement: Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Within minutes, lawmakers and activists rolled out statements that reflected their respective strategies for what’s expected to be a brutal confirmation fight. For Democrats, that meant highlighting Kavanaugh’s views on health care — not just the very real possibility that Roe v. Wade will be overturned by a more conservative Supreme Court, but the broader threat to access to affordable health care.
(As The Hill reports, the idea is that highlighting issues like Obamacare’s protections for preexisting conditions in addition to reproductive rights will be less divisive in red states.)
Meanwhile, Republicans sought to portray Democrats as hysterical obstructionists tearing down a perfectly respectable judge for partisan purposes (though they refused to even consider President Obama’s far more centrist Supreme Court nominee purely for partisan purposes).
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