Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer on Tuesday stated that President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court because he’s “worried” about special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the 2016 election, The New York Post reported.
“Why did the President stick with Kavanaugh? Because he’s worried that Mr. Mueller will go to the court and ask that the President be subpoenaed. … And President Trump knows that Kavanaugh will be a barrier to preventing that investigation from going there,” Schumer said at a rally with Senate Democrats outside the Supreme Court.
Schumer said that “it’s no wonder Trump picked Kavanaugh because his views on this issue are more extreme than just about anyone else on that list.”
Trump announced late Monday that Kavanaugh will succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.
The White House and GOP leadership want him confirmed before the court starts its new term in October.
Kavanaugh wrote in a 2009 law review article that trying to indict a sitting president would “cripple” the federal government and distract a president.
“Having seen first-hand how complex and difficult that job [of president] is, I believe it vital that the President be able to focus on his never-ending tasks with as few distractions as possible,” Kavanaugh wrote at the time.
Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani told ABC News on Sunday that they were “close” to deciding if Trump would sit down with Mueller.
Democrats first focused their strategy on Kavanaugh’s impact on health care; however, they are now warning of his potential impact on the Mueller probe.
“Here’s a presidential tweet you’ll never read: Just in the nick of time, the President found a Supreme Court nominee who is on record saying the President should not be distracted with criminal investigations and prosecutions while he’s in office,” Democratic Senator Dick Durbin said on Tuesday.
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