(2) Brett M. Kavanaugh will soon be the 102nd Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the USA. He has earned this highest honor throughout his life, inspired by his trailblazing mother, Judge Martha Kavanaugh.
His title for these few hours is Associate Justice Designate.
(3) This statement from the Supreme Court explains the two ceremonies:
(4) The President has signed Justice Kavanaugh's Commission of Appointment aboard Air Force One, which is returning to Washington DC from a rally in Topeka, Kansas.
(5) Shortly before the WH ceremony begins, I expect a live broadcast of it will start at the WH website link below, and on the WH FB page and YT channel. I expect the SCOTUS ceremony will be private, with photos released afterward.
(6) Correction: The President's Kansas rally will start in about one hour. So I assume that the swearing in at the WH will occur without him there. I don't think he'll be back until after midnight, IDK. VP will host Justice Roberts at the WH.
(7) I had assumed that the WH ceremony would need to take place first, but I will do some more research and report back. Here he is arriving at the court just before 5.30pm.
(9) My apologies. The Supreme Court statement I showed earlier doesn't mention a WH ceremony tonight. I am so excited and I was so used to that being done first that I didn't read it correctly. I expect that photos of the swearing in will be released soon.
(10) When the President arrives at his rally and announces the news, the crowd will raise the roof. Find a live feed and watch it now. The warm-up speeches are underway.
(11) First pictures:
(12) Justice Roberts administers the first of two oaths of office:
(13) Welcome, Justice Kavanaugh. We are optimists, too.
(14) Huge cheers at the rally as President Trump speaks about Justice Kavanaugh.
He announced that the WH ceremony will take place at 7pm Monday. (The Court is in session on Tuesday morning.)
That's the ceremony I want to live tweet for you.
(15) Official photos: The President signing Justice Kavanaugh's Commission of Appointment just before landing in Kansas.
(16) If you zoom in on the photo of the swearing-in by Justice Kennedy, all four Kavanaughs are smiling.
(17) WH statement: "Mrs. Ashley Kavanaugh held the family Bible. Justice Kavanaugh’s two daughters, Liza and Margaret, and his parents attended the ceremony. Justices Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito, and Kagan also attended."
The other justices in DC at the time attended. Good.
(18) Justice Kavanaugh's WH ceremony at 7pm tonight will be live streamed at the link below. By chance, his middle name, Michael, is also the name of the hurricane moving North toward Florida this week.
Well said, @DonnaLeeSun. I have the same approach.
Donna is "Unapologretically Canadian."
I am Unapologetically New Zealander/Kiwi. Granted, "sorry" has a special meaning in Canada, eh? But our countries do have a lot in common. Mini-thread:
I really get what Donna is saying in her Twitter bio:
"Trumpism has a strong foothold in Canada & we ignore it at our peril. Pay attention, esp. to PP, former PM Harper & idiot Premiers!"
The same is true of New Zealand, Australia, and our OG mothership: The UK.
PP stands for Pierre Poilievre, who became the leader of Canada's conservative party on 10 September 2022.
For me it's super simple: Far right extremism gained a foothold in the US, only to be rejected by majorities of voters multiple times since. Because #DemocracyWins.
Evidently, my above use of the term misogyny has triggered a few of them.
They're trying to insinuate that Kohberger was a liberal which, even if true, would have nothing to do with the points made in my tweet. We already know several things about him, and his crimes...
Further, when writing the above list of 5 known and/or confirmed misogynists, some of whom have killed at least one woman, I considered a range of factors that put them on that list.
I want to encourage discussion about misogny and the targeting of women by violent offenders.
Esp. the 2020 US presidential election, and others where right wing governments were (and will soon be) punished for anti- public health and safety, anti-science, ignorant approaches to pandemic response.
Do politicians and their advisers get this yet? In most households, it is one or more women who take basic health and safety seriously, & who develop a superior knowledge base due to our more complex biology, higher rates of illness, & greater need for infection control measures.
Of course there are many men with the same health knowledge and risk management priorities as women, but we are talking about "in general" here, and how that applies to elections.
Gotta laugh, my tweet generated the following reply from a maga account:
"Ukraine flag in bio"
Ad hominem/genetic fallacy is all they have. They deflect by targeting the player not the ball. Because playing the ball is too hard for them. It requires honesty & courage.
I'm talking about changing the way domestic violence incidents are handled, and doing more to put long term distance between known DV offenders and their legal access to guns.
An idea best espoused by the outstanding @BeauTFC. Link to follow.
The outstanding @BeauTFC talked about this issue here:
I wonder what price between $8 billion and $44 billion Elon Howard Hughes Musk might consider to sell this vital pro-democracy communications hub before he completely destroys it.
I mean, that's his goal, right?
He paid waaaay too much for it. Value currently estimated at $8 billion. Surely there are billionaires out there with the ability to build a consortium to entice it out of his grubby little hands?
There's a good argument for the US federal government buying it, too...
Or a group of countries. It's not all about the US, you know.
What does the Putin regime have on Musk, that could get him to over-spend so much money? The global fascist movement is the only winner out of this. Or was it the Mercers?