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'Judge Kavanaugh is your worst nightmare': Democrats resist Trump's nominee
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Washington Post Published on Jul 10, 2018
Senate Democrats listed health care, gun control and abortion rights as some issues that judge Brett M. Kavanaugh would have the potential to influence, if confirmed to the Supreme Court.
“There’s a lot to dislike .. .https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1016730494506012673 .. about Brett Kavanaugh’s record — including his hostility to consumers,” Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts who largely created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as part of Dodd-Frank reforms in 2010, wrote on Twitter TWTR, +3.17% on July 10.
“Judge Kavanaugh has been a reckless and partisan jurist who has always seemed more interested in pleasing Wall Street and the conservative political establishment than he has in defending the Constitution,” wrote Karl Frisch, the executive director of the left-leaning consumer advocacy organization Allied Progress, in a statement. “He would be a disaster for consumers and the CFPB if confirmed to the Supreme Court.”
Kavanaugh has support within the business community
Others disagree. The National Federation of Independent Business, a nonprofit based in Nashville, released a statement cheering his nomination .. https://www.nfib.com/content/press-release/homepage/nfib-welcomes-scotus-nominee/ .. on July 9. “Judge Kavanaugh has a proven record of interpreting the U.S. Constitution according to its original meaning and has ruled consistently against regulatory agencies whose interpretation of the law exceeds its statutory authority,” wrote Juanita Duggan, chief executive and president of the National Federation of Independent Business.
Kavanaugh will cement a “reliably conservative majority” on the Supreme Court, which has already shown some signs of ruling in favor of businesses, including a recent decision in favor of American Express .. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-the-american-express-supreme-court-victory-means-for-you-2018-06-29 .. AXP, +0.85% said Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at Compass Point, a research and trading firm with offices in New York, Boston and D.C.
Here’s why consumer advocates take issue with Kavanaugh as Trump’s nominee:
PHH Corporation v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Critics fear Kavanaugh will weaken the country’s most prominent consumer watchdog. In 2017, a three-judge panel for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in a case called PHH Corp. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau .. https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/B7623651686D60D585258226005405AC/$file/15-1177.pdf . Kavanaugh was the lead author of that decision, which said the current structure of the CFPB, with just one director, violates the Constitution.
Kavanaugh has spent 12 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In January 2018, the entire D.C. Circuit Court upheld the rule that the president can only fire the head of the CFPB for those specific causes. That case will not go to the Supreme Court .. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/what-judge-kavanaugh-could-mean-cfpb-scotus-justice , according to the National Law Review, but there are several other cases pending that relate to the CFPB’s constitutionality that could.
“Payday lenders and their allies in Congress have consistently tried to weaken CFPB’s authority for meritless and political reasons,” said Debbie Goldstein, the executive vice president of the Center for Responsible Lending, in a statement. “Brett Kavanaugh is someone who’s made common cause with that effort.”
“Having a judge confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court who is anti-consumer and believes that the CFPB structure is unconstitutional is alarming and should concern consumers across the country,” she added. Members of the Trump administration and other members of the House have also made suggestions including getting rid of its public complaint database .. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-you-should-care-about-the-cfpbs-new-leadership-2018-01-25 .
U.S. v. Anthem
Kavanaugh has consistently ruled before in favor of corporations, said Linda Jun, senior policy counsel at Americans for Financial Reform, a nonprofit made up of civil rights and consumer groups that supports a “strong” CFPB. The Supreme Court nominee’s record is “disconcerting,” she added. She cited the 2017 antitrust case of U.S. v. Anthem .. https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10984287062888693889&q=855+F.3d+345&hl=en&as_sdt=20006 .. in which Kavanaugh sided with Anthem ANTM, +0.40% and Cigna CI, +0.68% two health insurers that planned to merge.
The merger would be beneficial to customers who get their insurance from Anthem and Cigna, Kavanaugh argued. But consumer advocates argued that it would lead to less competition and, ultimately, higher costs. Ultimately, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit did not allow Anthem to acquire Cigna .. https://www.wsj.com/articles/appeals-court-affirms-decision-blocking-anthem-cigna-merger-1493390311 , on antitrust grounds.
The two insurers subsequently sued one another in Delaware state court. Anthem wanted to prevent Cigna from terminating their deal — trying to salvage the merger after the court’s decision — but a Delaware judge denied that request .. https://www.wsj.com/articles/delaware-judge-frees-cigna-to-exit-anthem-merger-1494537564 , saying the chances of saving the merger were remote. Cigna was, therefore, free to walk away from the deal.
Cablevision Systems Corp. v. the FCC
In the case of Cablevision Systems Corp. v. the Federal Communications Commission in 2010 .. https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14977163657958245071&q=597+F.3d+1306+&hl=en&as_sdt=20006 , Kavanaugh sided with Cablevision and said the First Amendment applies to modern communication as it did “to the publishers, pamphleteers and newspapers of the founding era.” The FCC wanted to ban exclusive contracts between cable operators and their affiliated video programming networks. But Cablevision and other operators did not want the government to interfere in their programming decisions. The court ruled in favor of Cablevision.
President Trump’s administration, meanwhile, sees Kavanaugh’s all of these decisions as pro-business and a net positive for both employers, workers and consumers. Earlier this week, the White House sent a letter .. https://www.barrons.com/articles/big-business-is-cheering-brett-kavanaugh-trumps-supreme-court-pick-but-investors-shouldnt-1531251169 .. to industry trade groups, asking for support for Kavanaugh. “Judge Kavanaugh protects American businesses from illegal job-killing regulation,” the White House said. Kavanaugh is good for business and is against “overregulation,” the letter said.
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MSNBC Published on Jul 20, 2018
House GOP members rebuffed Reps. Swalwell and Schiff’s attempt to subpoena the Trump/Putin interpreter but the Senate unanimously rebuked Trump for considering letting Russia interrogate U.S. Citizens. Rep. Swalwell and Amb. Nick Burns join Lawrence.
Tramp says Dan Coats and others came to me and said,"They think it's Russia. "I have President Putin, he just said it's not Russia." Then Trump, deliberately said, "I don't see any reason why it would be." Don't worry, Dan, your good friend Mike(Pence) trust you more than he trusts Putin.
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By David E. Sanger and Matthew Rosenberg July 18, 2018
Leaders around the world have come to learn, since Trump was elected, they cannot trust the U.S.A.
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MSNBC Published on Jul 19, 2018
Special Counsel Mueller releases a list of more than 500 pieces of evidence against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, part of which focuses on Manafort’s lavish lifestyle using allegedly laundered money. Watergate Prosecutor Nick Akerman tells Ari Melber that the available evidence suggests Manafort has “lined his own pockets to the detriment of all the good honest citizens who do pay their taxes”.
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MSNBC Published on Jul 20, 2018
Stormy Daniels’ Attorney Michael Avenatti joins Ari Melber to discuss reporting by The New York Times, that alleges Michael Cohen made a tape of Trump discussing secret payoffs to women. Avenatti tells Ari Melber there is “more than one tape” and reveals he had a “very positive meeting” with Cohen and won’t rule out representing him, if Cohen is “prepared to do the right thing”.
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