President Donald Trump named Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee for the US Supreme Court on Monday night (July 9), following the retirement announcement of Justice Anthony Kennedy last month. A conservative with 12 years of experience in the District of Columbia Circuit Court, Kavanaugh has already attracted scrutiny for past decisions on scientific matters varying from environmental policy to drug regulation, as well as his well-publicized opposition to abortion rights.
“He is pretty consistently anti-environment on every front,” Bill Snape, a law professor at American University and senior counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity, tells BuzzFeed News. “I call him Lord Voldemort,” Snape adds.
Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit Earthjustice, which litigates environmental issues in the U.S., tweeted yesterday that the choice “jeopardizes people’s ability to rely on the courts to protect their health, safety, and the environment.”
Not everyone has been so critical. Richard Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard ...
