SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham expressed happiness Tuesday [10-16-18] with President Donald Trump’s successful nominations of Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, calling them ‘the greatest minds of their generation.’ Speaking at an event hosted by The Heritage Foundation, the senator from South Carolina recalled that when he first saw Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees, ‘I said, ‘Thank God,’ because I thought he might, like, pick Judge Judy’…When asked if the ugliness of Kavanaugh’s contentious confirmation hearing is the ‘new normal,’ Graham said that ‘if this is not bottom, I’d hate to see it.’ He had forcefully defended Kavanaugh against an allegation of sexual assault during a tense Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in September, where both Kavanaugh and his accuser, California professor Christine Blasey Ford, testified. Graham became visibly angry during the hearing and accused Democrats of wanting to ‘destroy’ the life of Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.”
–Kate Sullivan, “Graham credits Trump for Supreme Court picks: ‘This is all working out OK’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, October 16, 2018 10:12 pm