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The US president has chosen this close to George W. Bush to succeed Anthony Kennedy, who announced his intention to retire on July 31.
Donald Trump on Monday (July 9th) appointed Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court, the highest court in the country. "No one is better qualified for this job and no one deserves it so much" said the American president by introducing Mr. Kavanaugh to the White House.
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This is Mr. Trump's second appointment to the Supreme Court in 18 months of his tenure. It arose out of the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, one of the nine high court judges.
Brett Kavanaugh, 53, has been a member of the Columbia District Court of Appeal since 2006. This court is renowned for the importance of the files that pbad through it and is therefore considered a stepping stone for the Supreme Court, also located in the federal capital.
Practicing Catholic
A graduate of the prestigious Yale University, Judge Kavanaugh began his career in the judiciary as badistant to Anthony Kennedy. The magistrate became known in the 1990s during two scandals of the era Bill Clinton.
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He had investigated the suicide of Vince Foster, Clinton's friend and White House collaborator, in the Whitewater case, concerning investments in the real estate of the presidential couple. Later, Mr. Kavanaugh helped draft the report of Attorney Kenneth Starr, including on Bill Clinton's extra-marital relationship with a trainee, Monica Lewinsky.
Arriving in 2001 at the White House, George W. Bush had recruited him from among his direct collaborators. The Republican President then appointed Brett Kavanaugh to the Washington Court of Appeal. His wife, Ashley, with whom he had two daughters, served as the president's personal secretary.
No wonder this brilliant spirit has been noticed by the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation, the organizations that have helped the White House to select candidates for the Supreme Court: this practicing Catholic, active in various religious badociations, has shown a conservative consistency in his decisions.
In 2012, the judge was part of a panel having canceled a measure from the EPA, the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, aimed at reducing air pollution between states. Recently, he has expressed his disagreement with a decision allowing a teenage girl to enter the United States illegally to have an abortion.
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Close to George W. Bush
Being chosen by Mr. Trump, Judge Kavanaugh made those who thought his ties with George W. Bush unacceptable. Jeb Bush, the former president's brother, has been repeatedly targeted by Mr. Trump's quips during the Republican primary in 2016.
If confirmed by a Senate vote, Brett Kavanaugh will become one of the youngest sages of the Supreme Court. His appointment should not change the ideological orientation of the institution, which ensures the constitutionality of laws in the United States, since five of the nine judges who sit there are already conservative sensitivity.
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Justice Anthony Kennedy sometimes switched to the liberal camp on social issues such as abortion or gay rights. Aged 81, he announced on June 27 his intention to retire on July 31.
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