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发帖数: 61690 | 1 After Donald Trump wrapped up his first speech to Congress and worked his
way through the crowd, he lingered on his handshake with Anthony Kennedy,
the 80-year-old Supreme Court justice.
The boom mics picked up their seemingly private conversation.
“Say hello to your boy,” Trump said, “Special guy.” “Your kids have
been very nice to him,” Kennedy replied. “Well,” Trump said, “they love
him, and they love him in New York.”
While the White House is focused this week on shepherding Trump’s first
Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, through the Senate confirmation process
, the president and his team are obsessed with the next possible vacancy.
The likeliest candidate is Kennedy, who has sat at the decisive fulcrum of
the most important Supreme Court cases for more than a decade. Replacing him
with a reliable conservative would tip the court to the right, even if no
other seat comes open under Trump — whose team has taken to exploring every
imaginable line of communication to keep tabs on the justice and to make
him comfortable as he ponders a potential retirement.
One back channel is the fact that Kennedy’s son, Justin, knows Donald Trump
Jr. through New York real estate circles. Another is through Kennedy’s
other son, Gregory, and Trump’s Silicon Valley adviser Peter Thiel. They
went to Stanford Law School together and served as president of the
Federalist Society in back-to-back years, according to school records. More
recently, Kennedy’s firm, Disruptive Technology Advisers, has worked with
Thiel’s company Palantir Technologies. |
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