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AFL-CIO Head: High Court Went Radical, Kavanaugh No Help

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 9/17/18

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka used a Sept. 11 speech at Yale Law School to make the case against the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh while lacing into the high court’s “pro-corporate, activist wing of justices who wax poetic about precedent and judicial restraint, yet regularly bend over backwards to serve the interests of the wealthy, the powerful and the privileged.”

He noted that he came from a coal-mining family but had become a lawyer because he saw how miners were treated in the “company town” of Nemacolin, Pa., where he grew up.

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