Federal Courts and Nominations

TV (PBS): CAC’s Elizabeth Wydra sets up Day 2 of the Kavanaugh Hearings

On September 5, 2018, Constitutional Accountability Center President Elizabeth Wydra appeared on the PBS NewsHour’s live coverage of the second day of hearings on President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court, saying, “I think today we’re going to see [Senators] probe whether or not if he gets on the Court he’ll pursue a constitutional agenda–which is what every justice should do–or if he’ll continue what he did in his career before the bench, which is advancing a conservative Republican agenda.”

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