The powerful and deep-pocketed conservative group Judicial Crisis Network pledged on Monday to spend $1.4 million in television advertisements supporting Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s latest nominee to the Supreme Court.
“Judge Kavanaugh is a home run,” Carrie Severino, JCN’s chief counsel and policy director, said in a statement announcing the seven-figure ad buy. “Like Gorsuch, Judge Kavanaugh is brilliant, fair and independent, committed to following the law and honoring the Constitution. I look forward to the confirmation of another great justice.”
The group had already signaled it was willing to spend big to support Trump’s nominee, no matter who the President chose. Shortly after Kennedy announced his retirement, JCN went up with a $1 million ad buy, and it began telling reporters about the $1.4 million ad buy hours before Trump had announced his selection.
The Kavanaugh ad will air nationally on cable news, in addition to airing in Alabama, Indiana, North Dakota and West Virginia, according to the press release. Those Trump-voting states are all home to Democratic senators who will face intense pressure to support the President’s nominee.
The press release noted that the group had previously “announced that they would spend up to $7 million stopping Merrick Garland and later they announced they would spend up to $10 million supporting now-Justice Gorsuch.”
Watch the new ad for Kavanaugh below:
They’re going to go to the mat on this one because it’s a game changer. Will our side do they same? Everyone knows what is at stake.
The Judicial Crisis Actor Network speaks! All bow down before her as Amarosa Manigault prophesied!
Yes - Perfect Addition to do Dumpy*s bidding .
Interesting quote from what Josh wrote:
“In that document, Kavanaugh argued for a comically broad theory of what constituted obstruction of justice and impeachable offenses. He suggested that Clinton’s efforts to delay being interviewed by the Independent Counsel amounted to obstruction of justice and that lying to his staff and the American people were impeachable offenses. Needless to say, by this standard, President Trump commits numerous impeachable offenses every single day.”
Emphasis mine. Wouldn’t it be great to see him hammered on this during his confirmation hearings? Has it been about 9-months of delay on donald’s part for his Muller interview? And lying…OMG.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if this tangled web aimed at Bill Clinton ended up snaring donald?
ETA Here’s a good NYT article–>
Pretty astounding they have this kind of money to spend and think this is a good use for it. Makes me wonder how they they did to get this much money and what the expect to get from him as judge to keep them getting even more money.