Blumenthal稱Kavanaugh是Trump在關鍵議題上的主要助推者
重點速覽
- •Blumenthal表示,Brett Kavanaugh在推進Trump的主要政策優先事項方面扮演了核心角色。
- •他提到Kavanaugh關於移民攔查的協同意見,稱其助長了後來所謂的「Kavanaugh stops」。
- •Blumenthal說,Kavanaugh提出了可用來規避法院對Trump關稅限制的法律路徑。
- •他批評Kavanaugh對出生公民權的論證建立在對14th Amendment起草者意圖的推測之上。

一名政治幕僚對一位他認為是President Donald Trump主要助推者的最高法院大法官提出警告。
在《Court of History》的一集節目中,記者、前Clinton White House資深顧問Sidney Blumenthal闡述了他為《The Guardian》撰寫的一篇關於最高法院大法官Brett Kavanaugh的近期文章背後的思路。
Blumenthal說:「When you look beneath the surface, and you see certain dissents and statements and opinions, you find that Kavanaugh is playing an instrumental key role on Trump's key issues," Blumenthal said. "And he's really the most politically attuned, the one who is acting most like a political operative, and the results are catastrophic."
Blumenthal表示,Kavanaugh在移民、出生公民權以及「damaging」關稅等議題上都與Trump的議程保持一致。
他提到Kavanaugh的一項協同意見,該意見允許移民執法人員根據包括外貌特徵、說西班牙語以及從事某些工作等因素攔查民眾;Kavanaugh將這些因素稱為「a relevant factor」和「common sense.」Blumenthal指出,這類做法後來被稱為「Kavanaugh stops」。
當Trump就一項阻擋其關稅的裁決提起上訴時,最高法院站在一項下級法院裁決一邊,該裁決稱Trump的主張是「unconstitutional,」Blumenthal說。不過Kavanaugh表示,「Well, not only is it not unconstitutional, let me suggest certain laws and other kinds of citations of tariffs that you could cite」以繞過阻止Trump關稅的法律。
Blumenthal說:「He was playing the staffer to Trump," Blumenthal said. "And then Trump attacked the majority on the court as fools and dogs. But then he said, 'Kavanaugh, I'm so proud of him.'"
Blumenthal接著批評Kavanaugh在出生公民權問題上的「masterpiece of errors, factual revisionism and sophistry」,並表示這位大法官的論點建立在對14th Amendment起草者原本會希望什麼的推測之上。
Blumenthal說:「This is mind reading in a time machine about a non-existent legal category projected forward," Blumenthal said. "This is a fantastical fiction."