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Kavanaugh seems very likely to overturn the affordable care act. that's another rationale. his writings on roe v. wade are very troubling. it seems like he would overturn the woman's right to choose. if you want to get to no, you have ample ways of doing it if you're a senate democrat right now. >> of course, process doesn't seem to motivate people at large the way policy does. but we do have this strange precedent with the last vacancy on the court being created by the death of antonin scalia. february of 2016. republicans just refused to allow president obama's nomination of merritt garland ...

Committee. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me on. >> what is your reaction to the president's nomination? >> i'm a little sort of stunned at the way this has all played out. if you look at the 20 or so people, the one person who could be most assured to rule in his favor is this judge. he picked the one guy who has specifically written that a president should not be the subject of a criminal investigation. which the president is right now. so this seems to be, of all the people, the most self serving person he could choose to protect himself from this investigation. >> cnn...

President could have caused for himself, now he has that insurance policy. he has this get out of jail free card. and sifting through 20-plus names, as well as all the others he could have considered, he picked the one, it's not just that he said a president couldn't be indicted or held accountable for his actions. he goes as far as to say even an investigation. even being in the midst of a larger investigation. this could distract a president from other urgent work. you're right, rachel. it's a choice piece of irony that this is a person that is very much a political actor before he was a jur...

>> you are a trained lawyer and you have expert opinions on these things as well as observing them through a political lens. the way i understand judge kavanaugh's writing on the subject is not just that he said a president definitively cannot and should not be indicted when in office. but that he said a president shouldn't be subject to criminal prosecution or any civil lawsuits while in office. that a president should be exempt from accountability on either criminal or civil law while in office as a way to ensure that he's able to focus entirely on the business of running the country. that's...

Especially since we have someone who has clearly said they have a strong opinion should any of those issues come before the supreme court. we know now the ideas that are not settled law, that the president can pardon himself. whether he can just dispense with a criminal investigation. a lot of these issues could come right before that judge. >> you are a trained lawyer and you have expert opinions on these things as well as observing them through a political lens. the way i understand judge kavanaugh's writing on the subject is not just that he said a president definitively cannot and should n...