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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuardian: Kavanaugh was a member of the Eureka Club with Solicitor General.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/25/brett-kavanaugh-eureka-club-noel-francisco-emails
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Guardian: Kavanaugh was a member of the Eureka Club with Solicitor General. (Original Post)
triron
Oct 2018
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malaise
(269,239 posts)1. Get thee to the greatest page
Important
triron
(22,028 posts)2. Not much response so far.
malaise
(269,239 posts)3. Election fever
and the assassination attempts would be my guess
JHB
(37,163 posts)5. Do you mean not much response from DU?
If that's what you meant, you might get a better response by posting an excerpt along with the link.
If all you have is a link most people will just pass it by, on the basic principle of not clicking blindly on links, if nothing else.
Separation
(1,975 posts)4. It's the 1st I've heard of it in this detail
I knew he had ties to people like George Bush, and others. I didnt realize to what depth though.
Alex Azar, who now serves as the secretary of health and human services, also attended the dinners. Azar has oversight of the Trump administrations claimed effort to reunite parents with children who were separated from them under the White Houses zero-tolerance immigration policies. Azar also has oversight of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare law known as Obamacare. Both issues could come before the court.
They show that the dinner companions who Kavanaugh described as friends include Viet Dinh, who now serves as a senior legal adviser to Rupert Murdoch and is a godfather to Lachlan Murdochs child; John Yoo, who wrote the so-called torture memos; and Robert Coughlin, the former deputy chief of staff at the Department of Justice who pleaded guilty to a conflict of interest crime related to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Coughlin was disbarred but reinstated as a lawyer in 2016
Other attendees included a lawyer who is now a top strategic adviser to Rupert Murdoch; the author of the George W Bush-era torture memos that were used to justify illegal interrogation techniques; and two lawyers who now frequently appear before the supreme court on behalf of corporate clients.
Obviously more at the page. The problem is Kavanaugh has a job for life. People like him arent apt to step down either. Its gonna be hard to get a 2/3 vote for impeachment.