Here’s What We Know About Trump’s Scotus Nominee…

As Hannah just mentioned, President Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh as his SCOTUS nominee.

Not everyone is pleased with this…

The left, as you would expect, is LOSING THEIR MIND:

Oh God No! Brett Kavanaugh! @realDonaldTrump plans to screw the whole nation!

— WisewomanDee (@WisewomanD) July 10, 2018

Kavanaugh. Welcome to less rights and more guns.

— SassafrasMama (@SassafrasMama) July 10, 2018

excited to see kyle maclachlan play justice kavanaugh in the movie about the end of my life

— aunt clydia (@spalinabean) July 10, 2018

And the right… well… they’re wishy-washy:

Kavanaugh was not my first or second pick, but he’s a hell of a lot better than anyone Hillary would have selected

Let’s get him confirmed!

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 10, 2018

Barrett causes the other side to go crazy in a way that will drive GOP turnout in November. Kavanaugh will be enough to motivate the left without similarly motivating the right.

— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) July 10, 2018

I was personally hoping it would be Barrett.

But you know what? I’ll stand by him, and wish him the absolute best in what’s about to be one hell of a ride:

Congrats to #SCOTUS nominee, Brett Kavanaugh – equal justice under the law #Constitution 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/E0qsCAgdVD

— Dr. Kelli Ward (@kelliwardaz) July 10, 2018

President Trump nominates Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a 12-year veteran of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit with strong academic and conservative credentials, to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court #SCOTUS

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) July 10, 2018

Fox just threw this up about him:

Here’s a bit more, according to Vox:

Kavanaugh, 53, is a candidate straight out of Supreme Court central casting: He went to Yale and Yale Law (every current justice either attended that school or Harvard Law); he clerked for two federal appellate judges, including the well-known Alex Kozinski; worked in the solicitor general’s office in the George H.W. Bush administration; and then clerked for Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Since 2006, he has sat on the DC Circuit, which also produced current justices John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

It’s not for nothing that on Sunday the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo, who has been Trump’s most important adviser on court nominations, singled Kavanaugh out as one of the two most promising contenders for Kennedy’s seat, alongside the Seventh Circuit’s Amy Coney Barrett.

His resumé is the one every ambitious college Republican hoping to be on the Supreme Court one day dreams of building. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) once called him the “Forrest Gump of Republican politics.” But his likely nomination is sparking substantial debate among movement conservatives. He has his defenders, but concern has been growing in right-wing legal circles about his decisions in religious liberty cases and on Obamacare. Even cautiously pro-Kavanaugh writers are skeptical he’s the best possible pick. “There’s a difference between a home run and a grand slam,” as National Review’s David French put it.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has expressed concern that Kavanaugh’s long track record will produce too many documents for the Senate to pore over, elongating the confirmation process and making it hard to get Kavanaugh on the court quickly. Trump himself reportedly resents Kavanaugh’s closeness to the Bush family.

That said, Kavanaugh would almost certainly fall to the right of Anthony Kennedy as a Supreme Court justice, and enable a rightward shift in the Court’s jurisprudence for years or decades to come. Even more concerning for liberals, he has suggested enhancing the president’s power to block criminal and civil actions against him, a potentially worrisome position when the president nominating him is under investigation and facing multiple lawsuits.

Hmmm.

Interesting stuff here. I was DEFINITELY hoping for Amy Coney Barrett…. but again… I’ll reserve TOO much judgment until I see what’s in store.

All that aside…

Judge Brett Kavanaugh should have to put on a SCOTUS hat like he was just drafted by an NBA team.

— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) July 10, 2018

YAS!