Ted Cruz just said that because of Trump's Supreme Court short list, Kavanaugh's nomination has been "ratified" by the 2016 election. Setting aside, you know, the popular vote, BRETT KAVANAUGH WAS NOT ON TRUMP'S 2016 SHORT LIST.
He was added in 2017. 1/
He was added in 2017. 1/
How did Kavanaugh campaign his way onto Trump's short list?
Going out of his way to praise the dissent in Roe v Wade––calling Rehnquist, who "clearly wanted to overrule Roe" his "hero" and "role model." 2/
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Going out of his way to praise the dissent in Roe v Wade––calling Rehnquist, who "clearly wanted to overrule Roe" his "hero" and "role model." 2/
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In the only abortion-related case he heard, denying a 17-year old immigrant the right to an abortion. 3/
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Having passed Trump's litmus test that he would overturn Roe, Kavanaugh moved on to Trump's anti-ACA litmus test and sought to pass it by going out of his way to criticize Chief Justice Roberts' legal reasoning in upholding the health care law. 4/
heritage.org/josephstory2017
heritage.org/josephstory2017
In 2016, after Kavanaugh was passed over for Trump's SCOTUS short list, he also sought to prove himself by siding with big banks when he held that the CFPB––a pro-consumer watchdog agency that guards against scams by greedy companies—was unconstitutional. (He was overturned.) 5/
Kavanaugh also sided with health insurers when he voted in favor of the largest proposed merger in the history of the health insurance industry––which experts predicted would have caused premiums to spike for consumers. 6/
On net neutrality, Kavanaugh sided with cable companies by voting to allow them to charge consumers more to visit certain websites. He even argued that protecting equal access to the internet violated the free speech rights of big telecom companies. 7/
Care about the environment? Kavanaugh was one of only 2 dissenting judges in a 9-2 decision that reinstated the Obama-era methane pollution rule and ruled that the EPA cannot require companies to replace HFCs with other substances. 8/
After all this campaigning––in just a year––the Federalist Society deemed Kavanaugh extreme enough for their list and Trump added him.
The only people who "ratified" Kavanaugh are the conservative men who want to overturn Roe and dismantle the ACA. Time to #StopKavanaugh /end
The only people who "ratified" Kavanaugh are the conservative men who want to overturn Roe and dismantle the ACA. Time to #StopKavanaugh /end
