July 9 (UPI) — President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.
Kavanaugh has served on the bench of the Washington, D.C., Circuit Court of Appeals since 2006 and will replace Kennedy, who announced his plans to step down effective July 31 late last month.
The nomination is Trump’s second high court nomination in 15 months, after Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch was sworn in by Kennedy in April 2017.
The previous three presidents — Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton — appointed just two in their entire eight-year presidencies.
Kavanaugh’s nomination represents a potential shift in the court’s balance, as Kennedy oftPresident Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.en served as a swing vote who sometimes sided with a different political ideology.
