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Speaker 1: This is Bloombird Law with June Brusso from Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Justice Brett Kavanaugh is the Supreme Court's lightning rod, despite

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's at the center of the court

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Speaker 1: in the majority more than any other Justice. Protesters demonstrate

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Speaker 1: at his home regularly and recently converged outside of Washington restaurant,

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Speaker 1: forcing him to leave by the back door, and of

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Speaker 1: course he's mocked by late night comedians who won't get

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Speaker 1: over that rant on his love of beer at his

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Speaker 1: confirmation hearings. Stephen Colbert seems to make the most of it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we drank beer. I liked beer. Still like beer. We

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Speaker 1: drank beer. Do you drink beer? Like beer? Still like beer?

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Speaker 1: Drank beer? Then reach for a cold bottle of Kavanaugh Cava.

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Speaker 1: Kavanaugh Beer is full body for great drink ability and

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Speaker 1: Supreme Judge ability, and a recent more Kent University Law

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Speaker 1: School poll seems to confirm the obvious. Kavanaugh had by

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Speaker 1: far the Court's worst net favorability rating of negative eleven

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Speaker 1: percentage points. The only other Johnstice with a negative rating

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Speaker 1: was Amy Coney Barrett at negative two. My guest is

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Speaker 1: Barbara Perry, a presidential and Supreme Court scholar at the

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Speaker 1: University of Virginia's Miller Center, Barbara From all the protests

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Speaker 1: against Kavanaugh, you'd never know that he was at the

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Speaker 1: center of the court. Well, I suppose we should begin

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Speaker 1: by saying that the center has shifted so that even

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Speaker 1: Chief Justice Roberts now seems much more moderate and much

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Speaker 1: more centrist relatively speaking, than those like Alito and the

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Speaker 1: three Trump nominees on the far far right. But it

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Speaker 1: is the case, by whatever measure we're now using, even

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Speaker 1: if the center has shifted, at least Brett Kavanaugh is

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Speaker 1: closer to that than he is to the far right.

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Speaker 1: He's also less confrontational during oral arguments than some of

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Speaker 1: the other justices like Samuel Alito. Sometimes you think from

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Speaker 1: what he says, he's going to vote with the liberals.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it's deliberate? I think that is probably

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Speaker 1: his personality, and that the aberration was his anger at

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Speaker 1: his own confirmation hearings four years ago. And we have

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Speaker 1: information that Trump talked to him and said go low

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Speaker 1: and go angry, and so that that's probably not his

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Speaker 1: normal approach to his public life, and that he did

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Speaker 1: that in order to get through and to please Donald

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Speaker 1: and on the Judiciary Committee. So I suspect that while

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Speaker 1: he's very, very conservative, it certainly has a conservative background.

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Speaker 1: I suspect that his personality is much more moderate than

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Speaker 1: he displayed in public in his confirmation hearing, so that

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Speaker 1: the true personality in persona Brett Kavanaugh is probably what

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Speaker 1: you see in oral arguments and to some extent in

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Speaker 1: his opinion. I mean, he's mocked more than the other

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Speaker 1: justices who are far more conservative than he is. How

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Speaker 1: much of that is duty think to his confirmation hearings,

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Speaker 1: As you said, he was angry, he was confrontational, and

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Speaker 1: he had some of those frat boy comments. Yes, he

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Speaker 1: had not only the unfortunate descriptions of his friend, but

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Speaker 1: their unfortunate nicknames. And then what will carry him to

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Speaker 1: his grave probably is I like beer all said not

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Speaker 1: only with anger, because Claire's Thomas was angry because of

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Speaker 1: the Anita Hill accusations at his nomination hearing, but in

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Speaker 1: terms of his facial expressions, he had a rather poker

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Speaker 1: face but angry voice, whereas Brett Kavanaugh had not only

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Speaker 1: anger in his voice, but his scrunched up face, and

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Speaker 1: then even when he has his resting, alcoholic, resting, moderate face,

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Speaker 1: it is an easily caricatured face. So some people just

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Speaker 1: Wreck Havanag just has a face that's easily caricatured by cartoonists,

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Speaker 1: but also easily portrayed in a Stephen Colbert monologue or

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Speaker 1: for example, in the jobs case the abortion case, his

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Speaker 1: opinion included a section that said you could limit the

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Speaker 1: So what's his point Is his point, as it was

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Speaker 1: and he also may have more moderate clerks around him. So,

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Speaker 1: of fairly extreme law clerks that Clarence Thomas typically hires.

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Speaker 1: And for Brett Kavanaugh, if indeed he is a slightly

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Speaker 1: the first draft of the Justice's opinions. So here, I

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Speaker 1: think Kavanaugh's agreement with the team and his chambers, but

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Speaker 1: also it does in his mind, I'm sure, helped to

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Speaker 1: But still, I mean, even though he says that, and

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Speaker 1: the sixth vote that they want. Well, yes, and so

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Speaker 1: did the Chief Justice, because I think they all wanted

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Speaker 1: to end Row. And then you also get to the

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Speaker 1: issue of you know, fool me once, shame on you.

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Speaker 1: Whatever it was it for George W. Bush had in

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Speaker 1: trouble saying, but you know, if I'm fooled by I

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Speaker 1: think it was Susan Collins said, oh, well, but Kevin

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Speaker 1: about Row. They were founding, first of all, the party

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Speaker 1: which was yes, it's precedent. Well, that's a truism. Row

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Speaker 1: would never, under any circumstances overturn Row. So nevertheless, they

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Speaker 1: And are you going to believe kavin Off that he

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Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas seems to still be holding a grudge for

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Speaker 1: his confirmation thirty years ago. He told his law clerks

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Speaker 1: the highest court of the land to make the lives

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Speaker 1: That is that a justice not only should be as

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Speaker 1: certainly riled him up, and he is riled to this day.

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Speaker 1: And now being able to have his conservative positions become

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Speaker 1: the law of the land he's also must be doing

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Speaker 1: a happy dance. So Kavanaugh was a clerk of Justice

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Speaker 1: There's always hope, yes, and particularly since Kavanaugh has messaged

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Speaker 1: through his opinions and through his demeanor on the bench,

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Speaker 1: he was a pragmatist. And right now, even if the

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Speaker 1: Liberals got Brett Cavanaugh, they'd only or vote. What they

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Speaker 1: have to hope is that on some of these instances,

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Speaker 1: they could win him over for these cases that are

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Speaker 1: what happens next term. Thanks so much, Barbara. That's Barbara Perry,

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Speaker 1: a presidential and Supreme Court scholar at the University of

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Speaker 1: Virginia's Miller Center. When the Manhattan US Attorney Damien Williams

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Speaker 1: announced new insider trading charges against a former US Congressman,

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Speaker 1: a former Goldman Sachs banker, and a one time FBI trainee,

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Speaker 1: he issued a warning. When insider trading occurs, investors who

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Speaker 1: should send a strong message to anyone who was even

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Speaker 1: trading cases show that sometimes crime doesn't really pay. Joining

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Speaker 1: me is Bloomberg Legal reporter Bob van Voris. Bob tell

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Speaker 1: us about Briget Goyle, who was one of the people indicted.

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Speaker 1: Brigett Coyle was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and

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Speaker 1: then moved to Apollo Global, where he was a principal.

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Speaker 1: He was charged recently with insider trading. It's alleged that

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