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    Brett Kavanaugh Is Devoted to the Presidency

    Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court has been deeply shaped by the needs and mores of the executive branch.
    by Garrett Epps Jul 09, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Leah Millis / Reuters

    Not since Warren Harding in 1921 nominated former President William Howard Taft to be chief justice has the country been presented with a high court nominee so completely shaped by the needs and mores of the executive branch as Brett Kavanaugh, unveiled Monday night as President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.

    Though Kavanaugh served as Kennedy’s law clerk during the October 1993 term, the contrast between the two men could hardly be more complete. Kennedy’s roots lay in his days of small-town private practice; he made his way to the

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