Cable news viewers won’t even get a reprieve from Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing during commercial breaks.
The Judicial Crisis Network is putting $600,000 into a two-week ad buy starting Wednesday, launching a 30-second commercial nationwide touting Kavanaugh on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. The ad consists almost exclusively of soundbites from Kavanaugh’s opening statement on Tuesday. That’s a quick turnaround. “Over the past 12 years, I have ruled sometimes for the prosecution and sometimes for criminal defendants, sometimes for workers and sometimes for businesses,” he says. The ad then jumps to the end of Kavanaugh’s statement, where he pledged, “If confirmed to the Supreme Court, I will keep an open mind in every case. … I will always strive to preserve the Constitution of the United States and the American rule of law.”
