Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not answer when asked who he would nominate to the Supreme Court if he were elected president of the United States.
Kennedy, who will be running as an Independent in the 2024 election, paused for several seconds when asked in a recent interview with conservative activist Charlie Kirk whom he would nominate to the Supreme Court. Worse still, the candidate could not answer when asked to name a “current or recent” Supreme Court justice who is in line with his views.
“I couldn’t answer that,” said RFK Jr. “I would say I’m going to appoint judges who, who reflect my values.”
When Kirk asked if a justice like Clarence Thomas (conservative) or Elena Kagan (liberal) better reflected his values, Kennedy also refused to answer.
“I don’t know, I wouldn’t answer that,” Kennedy said.
“But respectfully, you’re running for president,” Kirk shot back. “That’s a huge issue for voters, especially for Second Amendment rights, abortion.”
Kennedy then fired off a list of his most “important issues.”
“Free market capitalism, strong environmental protection, strong liberties, human rights, civil rights, bodily autonomy, and skepticism toward big business and corporate control of our country and a hostility toward corruption,” Kennedy said.
When asked to name his favorite Supreme Court justice ever, Kennedy said, “Earl Warren,” but Kirk noted that the Warren court most notably ended in prayer in public schools.
“This is why I don’t want to pick a particular justice,” Kennedy said. “I’m telling you what I would look for in a justice, but I’m not going to endorse every decision. So I can see the trick here, which is I name a judge and you’re going to pick a decision that I would not endorse.”
“It’s not a trick. You’re running for president and you know I have respect for you,” Kirk replied.
Kennedy did, however, note that stances on an issue like affirmative action would not be disqualifying for a justice.
“I would look at the whole package,” he said.
He’s not going to play the, I got you question nonsense.
Rick, Charlie Kirk asked a basic and very easy question, and Kenndy could not answer what a shame. This says a lot about him I don’t think he would be a good president for America.
Trump had a list of people he’d appoint to the SCOTUS.. It shows Kennedy is unprepared or scared to name a candidate.
Hmmm
It wasn’t that Kennedy couldn’t answer the question, let alone had never considered it. He is a life-long professional politician and consequently is acutely aware that despite the legitimacy of the question he knows full well that whatever answer he gives will almost certainly alienate half the electorate…
come on people, this is Presidential election year and he is, all appearances by the MSM aside, clearly one of the front runners…
Personally, I am quite sure that his answer would have betrayed his long standing anti-gun, anti-2nd Amendment and hence anti-Constitution and UN-American positions shared by virtually every single Democrat and most Republican candidates going back literally decades now.
You can’t reach high elected office in the US unless you support and defend the political ideology of zionism which is functionally y definition essentially the exact opposite of our Constitutional Republic…
This statement shows that you have no understanding of what Zionism even is. Some people should just shut their mouths, instead of shooting them off.
What a waffler!