{"id":369566,"date":"2018-07-16T02:32:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T01:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-kavanaugh-nomination-and-labor\/"},"modified":"2018-07-16T02:32:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T01:32:01","slug":"the-kavanaugh-nomination-and-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-kavanaugh-nomination-and-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kavanaugh Nomination and Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Last week, President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.\u00a0 Kavanaugh currently serves as a judge on the United States Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was nominated to the DC Circuit by President George Bush in 2003 but was not confirmed until 2006.\u00a0 Prior to coming to the bench, Kavanaugh held a number of positions that brought him into the partisan fray, including serving on Ken Starr\u2019s Whitewater Special Counsel team, working for President Bush on the Florida recount, and serving in the Bush White House as the staff secretary.\u00a0 He clerked for Justice Kennedy, overlapping with Justice Gorsuch\u2019s tenure in Kennedy\u2019s chambers.\u00a0 He attended Yale University for both college and\u00a0law\u00a0school. Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination was met with swift and strong opposition from the labor movement. AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aflcio.org\/press\/releases\/judge-brett-kavanaugh-puts-rights-working-people-serious-risk\">described<\/a>\u00a0Kavanaugh as having a \u201cdangerous track record protecting the privileges of the wealthy and powerful at the expense of working people.\u201d\u00a0 SEIU\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEIU\/status\/1016507143627919361\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cconfirming Kavanaugh would tip the scales of justice against\u00a0working\u00a0people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opposition to the nomination by the labor movement is no surprise.\u00a0 Kavanaugh\u2019s record demonstrates consistent support for the interests of employers and a lack of concern for the interests of workers and the government agencies that come to the DC Circuit to protect workers\u2019 rights.\u00a0 Below, I will provide an overview of his record and attempt to make the case that his record reflects a sustained and, at times, aggressive hostility to the role of the law in protecting the vulnerable and\u00a0less\u00a0powerful.<\/p>\n<p>An appropriate starting point in conveying the character of his record is his dissent in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=17224381163705815741&amp;q=Agri+Processor+Co.,+Inc.+v.+N.L.R.B.,+514+F.3d+1&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4006&amp;as_vis=1\"><i>Agri Processor Co., Inc. v. NLRB<\/i><\/a>.\u00a0 There, the majority held that the employer had a duty to bargain with its employees, despite the fact that many of the employees were undocumented workers. The majority relied on the Supreme&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/the-kavanaugh-nomination-and-labor\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.\u00a0 Kavanaugh currently serves as a judge on the United States Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was nominated to the DC Circuit by President George Bush in 2003 but was not confirmed until 2006.\u00a0 Prior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}