How Brett Kavanaugh Is Putting His Thumb on the Scale for Trump

How Brett Kavanaugh Is Putting His Thumb on the Scale for Trump

Justice Brett Kavanaugh does not work for the Trump Justice Department or the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel. Yet he helped them out quite a bit last month when, in an unrelated case, he effectively argued against using one of the Supreme Court’s most prominent doctrines to limit the president’s ability to impose tariffs at will on other countries.In FCC v. Consumers’ Research, Kavanaugh opined in a concurring opinion that the major-quest…