BRETT KAVANAUGH/CONGRESS/IMPEACHMENT/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If President Trump thinks the Supreme Court can rescue him from impeachment, he should check with his latest nominee there, Brett Kavanaugh. The new associate justice, who two decades ago was among President Bill Clinton’s pursuers at the Justice Department, has written that impeachment is the sole province of Congress. ‘If the president does something dastardly, the impeachment process is available,’ Kavanaugh wrote in a 2009 law review article. ‘No single prosecutor, judge or jury should be able to accomplish what the Constitution assigns to the Congress.’ To drive home the point, Kavanaugh – a federal appeals court judge at the time – cited Article I, Section 3, Clause 6, which empowers the Senate in impeachment trials. The next clause makes clear an impeached president can later be indicted and convicted. Trump threatened Wednesday [4-24-19] to involve the high court if Democrats try to impeach him over special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings in the Russia investigation. He did not explain how he might do that.”
–Richard Wolf, “Trump hopes for Supreme Court’s help on impeachment. He should check with Brett Kavanaugh.,” USA Today, April 24, 2019 2:02 pm