Trump picks DC veteran Brett Kavanaugh for critical Supreme Court opening
Yuba City couple Jake and Lauren Edwards are enjoying parenthood after their daughter, Ivy, was born 99 days before her due date.
WASHINGTON – In choosing Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump went with a well-credentialed Washington insider who compiled a long record as a reliable conservative and won the respect of White House lawyers and the outside groups that advise them.
They are confident that, if confirmed by the Senate, he will move the high court to the right
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But his court record and his status as a Beltway insider could also pose problems as the 53-year-old judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeks to move a few blocks up Capitol Hill to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, for whom he worked as a law clerk
PThe couple was living in the Lake Almanor area and drove two hours through a snowstorm to Enloe Medical Center in Chico, where Lauren was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia and HELLP syndrome – life-threatening. pregnancy-related conditions involving extremely high blood pressure and other signs of organ failure. She was then life-flighted to Sutter Health in Sacramento, where her condition continued to decline.
At 11 a.m. the next day, March 15, she had an emergency C-section to deliver Ivy, who weighed just 1 pound, 2.9 ounces and measured 11 inches long. “Smaller than a ruler,” Lauren said Monday.
Ivy became sick several times with a blood infection, an intestinal disease and stomach virus that kept her in isolation for several months.
But on June 22 – her official due date – she was released to her new home in Yuba City. While Ivy and mom are still recovering, the couple is starting to enjoy the more “normal” parts of parenthood.
“We’re just falling into the rhythm of actual parenthood right now,” Jake Edwards said. “No sleep at night… It’s been great.” from 1993 to 1994.
In the late 1990s, Kavanaugh played a lead role in the aggressive investigation of President Bill Clinton led by independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr. He was an author of the Starr Report, which urged the House to impeach the president for lying about a sexual affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Senate Democrats are sure to press Kavanaugh to explain his views on investigating and impeaching a president based on allegations of lies and a coverup, something that could prove uncomfortable for Trump given the investigation underway by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
A graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, Kavanaugh – the only one of Trump’s four finalists who has an Ivy League degree – will be in good company on a court where all