He’s up for a seat on our highest court. Here’s what you need to know about Brett Kavanaugh. USA TODAY
Conservatives jumped on an error in a statement released Tuesday night by the organizers of last year’s Women’s March on Washington in response to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
The statement condemning Trump’s nominee, who would replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, was released at 9:46 p.m. EDT, according to screenshots shared on social media. It contained one glaring error: the name of the nominee had not yet been filled in.
“In response to Donald Trump’s nomination of XX to the Supreme Court of the United States, The Women’s March released the following statement … ” the first sentence read. In the next paragraph, the statement included the name, but it was misspelled as “Cavenaugh.”
An updated message with both errors corrected was sent out minutes later.
The mistake played into concerns among conservatives that Democrats planned to blindly oppose anyone Trump might choose to nominate.
“A number of our Democratic colleagues could not even wait until the president’s announcement last night before launching attacks on his nominee,” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “This was, in some cases quite literally, a fill-in-the-blank opposition. They wrote statements of opposition only to fill in the name later.”
Justice Kennedy’s resignation letter had barely arrived in the President’s hands before several of our Democratic colleagues began declaring their blanket opposition…
