re: #185 HappyWarrior

I don’t know Kavanaugh personally. I only know him by his actions as a judge, Bush appointee, & Starr staffer. His career is filled with indecent behavior and actions far from honorable. He’s also a judicial partisan extremist to boot.

Kavanaugh returned to public service in the early 2000s and helped select and support some of President Bush’s most far-right judicial nominees as the right-hand man to then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales. Kavanaugh is said to have championed Priscilla Owen’s Fifth Circuit confirmation. Just this year, Owen defended the improper sentencing of an immigrant convicted of unlawful reentry. Kavanaugh is also tied to failed D.C. Circuit nominee Miguel Estrada, who was filibustered seven times before his troubling right-wing record finally forced him to withdraw from consideration.

As Kavanaugh’s White House service neared its end, Terri Schiavo’s story went from a painfully personal family moment to a Florida headline to a vicious, public battle championed by the Republican Party and the far Right. Schiavo died in hospice care on March 31, 2005 when her feeding tube was removed after more than a decade in a persistent vegetative state. Kavanaugh is said to be the one who woke President Bush so that he could sign off on congressional intervention aimed at putting the tube back in.

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