Conservative Majority: President Trump last night nominated jurist Brett Kavanaugh, who as a lawyer worked to impeach President Bill Clinton, to be the next member of the Supreme Court. The NY Times describes him as “a politically connected member of Washington’s conservative legal establishment.”

The assumption is that Kavanaugh will toe the conservative line opposing abortion and gay marriage, and give the Republicans a dependable 6-3 majority on the court. It’s been their goal for as long as 30 years to take control of the court and its decision-making for decades to come.

The nominee said, “My judicial philosophy is straightforward. A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law. A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent.”

He was chosen from a list of two dozen candidates provided to Trump by the Federalist Society, which identifies acceptable conservatives to be appointed to federal judicial positions.

Kavanaugh, 53, is a member of the US Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia and a onetime law clerk for  retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Interestingly in the Clinton case, Kavanaugh argued that the President could be impeached for lying to his staff and misleading the public, a broad definition of obstruction of justice that could apply to President Trump in the Russia investigation. He lies to everyone.

Kavanaugh later expressed discomfort with investigations of sitting presidents. He said that indicting a president “would ill serve the public interest, especially in times of financial or national-security crisis.”

Politically Incorrect: Tomi Lahren of Fox News, who’s on television because she’s blonde not brainy, continues to annoy the anti-abortion majority in the Republican Party. Citing a recent Quinnipiac poll finding that most Americans favor keeping abortions legal, she said not to mess with it. “We lose when we start tampering with social issues,” she said. “Do we really want to fight for this, alienate Democrats, moderates and Libertarians all to lose in the end anyway? That’s a risk that I don’t think is worth taking.”

Brexit Exit: British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who has been a prime mover in the effort to pull his country out of the European Union, resigned yesterday in protest of Prime Minister Theresa May’s tepid efforts to act on a national referendum deciding to leave the EU. He was the second minister to resign in 24 hours, putting May into a political crisis.

May has been trying to keep the country more closely associated with the EU than hardline conservatives like Johnson want. “We are truly headed for the status of colony,” Johnson wrote in his resignation letter.

Cave Boys: Only one boy and his soccer coach now remain in the flooded cave in Thailand. They are on their way out escorted by divers.

Malnewstrition: President Trump yesterday tweeted an attack on The NY Times for its story about how the administration tried to block an international resolution promoting breast feeding over manufactured infant formula.

Trump wrote, “The failing NY Times Fake News story today about breast feeding must be called out. The U.S. strongly supports breast feeding but we don’t believe women should be denied access to formula. Many women need this option because of malnutrition and poverty.”

  The Times reported that earlier this year the Trump tried to weaken the resolution  promoting breast feeding in order to promote the interests of companies that make infant formula. Nothing in the resolution attempted to deny formula to parents who want it.

Sales of formula in the US are dwindling and food companies are pushing their products in foreign markets.

This has been a controversy for 40 or 50 years. Food companies promoted formula in poor countries where families couldn’t afford all they needed. They ended up watering it down and malnourishing their children. In the years since, breast feeding has been recognized all over the world as the best way to nourish an infant unless the mother can’t do it.

The Obit Page: Tab Hunter, the 1950s Hollywood heartthrob who later admitted that he was gay, has died at age 86.

Hunter was blonde, sun-kissed, and square jawed. Men don’t get much better looking than he was. Plucked from a job in a Los Angeles horse stable, he broke out in the movies “Battle Cry” and “Damn Yankees.” He had a hit single singing “Young Love” in 1957. He performed in a lot of television shows.

Hunter was private about his life and survived in the old “don’t ask, don’t tell” Hollywood. He had a relationship with Anthony Perkins, who starred in the terrorizing Alfred Hitchcock film, “Psycho.” Not until he published his autobiography in 2005 did Hunter publicly admit he was gay.

He once told an interviewer, “I just have never been comfortable talking about my sexuality ….  I was just brought up that way. I’m very old-fashioned.”

Take Me to Court: President Trump’s personal driver of 25 years has sued the First Passenger for 3,300 hours of unpaid overtime in the past six years. He can’t sue for more because of the statute of limitations.

Noel Cintron, who’s seeking $200,000, says in his complaint that he was given only two raises over the past 15 years, the second of which was negated when Trump kicked him off the company health plan. He said he was required to work open-ended days from 7 am to whenever Trump, his family, or business associates no longer needed him.

Trump has a long record of stiffing people who work for him and not paying overtime.

Cintron says in the complaint that Trump and his businesses treated him “In an utterly callous display of unwarranted privilege and entitlement and without even a minimal sense of noblesse oblige.”

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