Sen. Ed Markey says a 2009 article shows it's 'no coincidence' Trump picked Kavanaugh

Sen. Ed Markey.
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Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) tweeted on Monday that he knows exactly why President Trump chose Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee for the Supreme Court.

"Brett Kavanaugh was the only nominee on Trump's shortlist who has written that a sitting president should not be indicted," he said. "It's not a coincidence that he was selected." Markey is referring to an article Kavanaugh wrote in 2009 for the Minnesota Law Review, in which he said former President Bill Clinton should never have been investigated while in the White House, because indicting a president still in office is a major distraction, "especially in times of financial or national-security crisis."


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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.