Kavanaugh declines to say whether he would recuse himself from cases involving Trump

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Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, declined to say whether he would recuse himself from cases before the Supreme Court involving President Trump, including those that may arise from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

“To be consistent with the principle of the independence of the judiciary, I should not and may not make a commitment about how I would handle a particular case,” Kavanaugh said.

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