Trump Apologizes To Kavanaugh On Behalf Of America For Democrats' Smear Campaign
thank you very much members of Congress members of the cabinet honored guests
and fellow Americans it is my privilege to address you tonight from the East
Room of the White House we're gathered together this evening for a truly
momentous occasion I have long been told that the most important decision a
president can make is the appointment of a Supreme Court justice well in just a
few moments we will proudly swear in the newest member of the United States
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
joining us for tonight's ceremony is every sitting Supreme Court justice
Chief Justice Roberts Thank You Justice Thomas Justice Ginsburg Thank You
Justice Breyer thank you Jesus Justice Alito justice Sotomayor
Justice Kagan thank you and Justice Gorsuch
I would also like to send our deep appreciation to Maureen Scalia the wife
of the late great Antonin Scalia and also to our White House Counsel Don
McGann thank you
we are thrilled to be joined this evening by Justice Anthony Kennedy
Justice Kennedy America owes you a profound debt of gratitude for a
lifetime of noble service to our nation and I want to thank you very much
very special and treasured guests tonight are just as Cavanaugh's amazing
wife Ashley thank you Ashley
and there are two beautiful daughters Margaret and Liza
and we are also joined by justice Cavanaugh's
mom and dad Martha and Eddie thank you
I would like to begin tonight's proceeding differently than perhaps any
other event of such magnitude on behalf of our nation I want to apologize to
Bret and the entire Cavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have
been forced to endure those who step forward to serve our country deserve a
fair and dignified evaluation not a campaign of political and personal
destruction based on lies and deception what happened to the Cavanaugh a family
violates every notion of fairness decency and due process our country a
man or a woman must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty
and with that I must state that you sir under historic scrutiny were proven
innocent thank you
Margaret Ann Eliza your father is a great man he is a man of decency
character kindness and courage who has devoted his life to serving his fellow
citizens and now from the bench of our nation's highest court
your father will defend the eternal rights and freedoms of all Americans you
know that
we are joined tonight by a leader who was never wavered in his support and
devotion to the rule of law and to Brett Cavanaugh's elev he's worked very very
hard and he truly has done just an incredible and wonderful job for the
American people Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
I think that's the biggest hand he's ever received they just don't they don't
get it Mitch you're great thank you very much
appreciate it I'd like to thank another man whose
principled leadership has earned widespread admiration chairman of the
Judiciary Committee Senator Chuck Grassley Thank You Chuck
we are grateful to all of the senators on the Judiciary Committee who fought so
hard for this confirmation senators Lindsey Graham John Cornyn Orrin Hatch
Mike Lee Ted Cruz Ben Sasse Jeff Flake Mike Crapo Tom Tillis and John Kennedy
and thank you also to rob portman sitting right here thank you
and finally we are indebted to senator Susan Collins for her brave and eloquent
speech and her declaration that when passions are most inflamed fairness is
most in jeopardy how true how true
red Cavanaugh is a man of outstanding intellect a brilliant scholar and his
credentials are unsurpassed a graduate of both Yale College and Yale Law School
he has taught at Harvard Yale and Georgetown when he's not working or with
his family he's giving back to his community he spent 26 years in public
service and just like justice Gorsuch he clerked for Justice Kennedy for the last
12 years Brett was a judge on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals widely regarded
as our nation's second highest court during his tenure he authored over 300
opinions distinguished by their masterful and impartial reasoning known
as a judges judge he is a fair-minded unbiased and even-handed person he
understands that justice must be divorced from the passions of the day
tethered instead to the enduring foundation of our republic the
Constitution justice Cavanaugh fills the place left by Anthony Kennedy soon
Justice Kennedy will administer the judicial oath to Brett Kavanaugh but
just as he did last year for Justice Gorsuch this will be the first time a
Supreme Court justice has ever sworn in a former clerk to take his seat a
beautiful moment which reminds us that freedom is a tradition passed down from
generation to generation and that's a big statement and I want to thank you
for that so much so beautiful
Margaret had Eliza's presence tonight reminds us what his historic event all
about your father is all about it's about what kind of a nation we're going
to be and what kind of a country our children will inherit it is up to each
of us in to all Americans watching tonight to answer that question it is up
to us to reclaim our heritage of equal and impartial justice it is up to us to
rededicate ourselves to the traditions and wisdom of our founders and it is up
to us to renew the bonds of love loyalty and affection that link us all together
as one great American family
let us pray we are successful in this task and let us pray that all of
America's children will grow up in a country that is fair and just and safe
and strong and free and let us ask God to bless justice Cavanaugh and his
family as they embark on this incredible journey together I now invite justice
Brett Kavanaugh to come forward and to take the judicial oath thank you very
much
i Brett and Cavanaugh do solemnly swear but I will administer justice without
respect to persons that I all use for justice without respect to persons and
do equal light to the poor and to the rich and do equal right to the 4 into
the river and that I will faithfully and impartially and that I will faithfully
and impartially discharge discharge who perform all the duties incumbent upon me
all the duties incumbent upon me as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States under the Constitution and the laws of the United States under the
Constitution laws of the United States so help me God so help me God
thank you god bless you and God bless america
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