Gorsuch’s friend Philip Anschutz gave $500,000 to a McConnell-affiliated Super PAC one day before McConnell shut down Garland’s nomination, and $250,000 one month before Elaine Chao—who’s communicating with the PAC’s CEO—had dinner with Cornyn and Gorsuch.
Chao’s dinner with Gorsuch and Cornyn occurred after Trump was informed of Kennedy’s retirement, but before it was announced publicly. Kavanaugh was Staff Secretary when Bush received the letter from Anschutz that put Gorsuch on the Tenth Circuit.
Anschutz was a founding member of Wedgwood Circle; Judicial Crisis Network’s Neil Corkery was its CFO.
If Kavanaugh, as Staff Secretary, had responsibilities for vetting Gorsuch for the Tenth Circuit, that info was hidden through “executive privilege.”