You’ve heard me bitch a few times about the fact that SCOTUS exempted itself from the same Judicial Code of Conduct other federal judges have to follow, and here’s a perfect example of why it’s so inappropriate:
https://twitter.com/Dan_F_Jacobson/status/1016661601531940864
This alleged (and not denied) secret deal between Trump and Kennedy is something that should be fully looked into before Kavanaugh gets a vote in the Senate. Given that Kavanaugh could be a deciding vote on Trump's own legal case, we need to get to the bottom of this https://t.co/aUrkTmD5KG
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) July 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/Shakestweetz/status/1016718399987159040
The walk back version of the story is that Kennedy secretly gave the WH a list, the WH publicly signaled back to Kennedy last November by adding one of his names to their list (https://t.co/s0Ubmx0HTn), Kennedy ruled in favor of the admin all term, and his one guy got picked. pic.twitter.com/Kdt1kcQ3vE
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 10, 2018
You can’t exchange things of value (in this case, the SCOTUS nomination) when you’re a normal federal judge. You just can’t.
This is a big fucking deal.
Nobody is above the law. Nobody.
Despite what Kavanaugh and the Federalist Society (they made a list too) believe.
Nobody is above the law. Not even Trump.
Despite what he may believe or what he’s been told.
Trump’s instincts are good, but his complete lack of knowledge on any topic and his extraordinarily poor judgement makes everything that he touches turn to s**t.