During an interview on MSNBC on Monday, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) stated that Judge Brett Kavanaugh is “the most self-serving person” President Trump “could choose in order to protect himself from this criminal investigation.” Booker further stated that in order to “avoid a constitutional crisis,” the Senate can’t let the confirmation process proceed.
Booker said, “He picked the one guy who has specifically written that a president, in fact, should not be the subject of a criminal investigation, which the president is right now. So, this seems to be, of all the people, the most self-serving person he could choose in order to protect himself from this criminal investigation.”
Booker added, “[W]e as the United States Senate, forget partisanship or what have you, for respect for the Constitution, to avoid a constitutional crisis, we cannot let this confirmation process go forward, especially now that we have someone that has clearly said that they have a strong opinion, should any of those issues come before the Supreme Court. We know now that the ideas…whether the president can pardon himself, whether the president can just dispense with a criminal investigation, a lot of these issues could come right before that justice that now he is 100% certain will have his back.”
He also stated, “[N]ow he’s got that insurance policy. He’s got this get out of jail free card, if you will. And in him sifting through 20-plus names, as well as all the other people he could have considered, he picked the one…that goes as far as to say that even an investigation, even him being in the midst of a larger investigation, that this could distract a president from his other, urgent work.”
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