Blumenthal critical of Kavanaugh on executive power

WASHINGTON — Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court pick, shouldn’t become a justice unless he vows to recuse himself from U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Since Kavanaugh was nominated on July 9, Blumenthal — a Connecticut Democrat and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee — has been particularly critical of the nominee’s views about executive power, especially his opinion that a sitting president should be able to exempt himself from criminal investigation. “This issue of presidential power is not really a political issue, it’s a constitutional concern and it goes to the core of the checks and balances that underlie our Constitution,” Blumenthal said.

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