Kavanaugh squirms as senator reveals big-money backers of his nomination

The following article by Erick Bohlert was posted on the ShareBlue.com website September 5, 2018:

The right-wing Federalist Society hand-picked Kavanaugh to be Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Kavanaugh pretended not to know anything about that.

Brett Kavanaugh, Pres. Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Credit: J. Scott Applewhite, AP Photo

Trump’s extremist Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, tried to play dumb at his Wednesday confirmation hearing about the secretive network of wealthy conservative donors who hand-picked him to be on Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist.

It’s been widely reported that Trump promised to choose his Supreme Court nominees from a list approved by the Federalist Society, a right-wing legal activist group with a huge influence on the GOP.

But rather than acknowledge this, Kavanaugh told a disbelieving Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) that Trump was really the one in charge of the nomination process.

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