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.
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.