Brett Kavanaugh: “To preserve what I think is the crown jewel of our constitutional democracy, which is the independence of the judiciary.”

We’re nine independent people.

Executive branches of both parties over the last 20 years have been increasingly trying to issue executive orders and regulations that achieve the policy objectives of the president in power.

But determining the nationally uniform interim legal status for several years of, say, the Clean Power Plan or Title IX regulations or mifepristone rules is a role that the American people appropriately expect this court — and not only the…

The collegiality of the Supreme Court is very strong.