Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘Jarring’ Supreme Court Remarks Stun Legal Experts

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has described President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon as “one of the better decisions in presidential history”—drawing the ire of legal analysts.Kavanaugh made his comments in the Supreme Court on Thursday, during oral arguments in Donald Trump’s presidential immunity challenge to his election fraud case in Washington, D.C. Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, appeared to be creating space for the idea that Trump could be granted immunity in the way Nixon was pardoned for crimes committed during the Watergate scandal.While asking questions of…