Facing an uphill battle to derail Donald Trump’s second nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Senate Democrats fanned out on Sunday to cast Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation fight as a referendum on White House accountability.
Liberals fear that elevating Kavanaugh to the nine-person court could create the most conservative panel since the 1930s and lead to legal reversals on precedents including abortion rights.
Yet, despite the variety of policies concerns, Democrats girding for a final fight to block Kavanaugh are focused on what they consider a more pressing threat: Trump himself.
Some of Kavanaugh’s previous judicial decisions “suggest he ...
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