Manchin to sit down with Kavanaugh next week

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10. Manchin is meeting with voters and asking for opinions.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/manchin-holds-roundtable-west-virginia-voters-talk-kavanaugh/story?id=56723536

CHARLESTON, WV -- West Virginians, who attended a town hall Friday to discuss Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh with Sen. Joe Manchin, urged him to ask the judge about hot-button issues such as his past writings on prosecuting presidents and his views on government surveillance.

Manchin, a Democrat, who said he would meet with Kavanaugh within the next two weeks, held the roundtable discussion with about 25 local political activists and attorneys to solicit opinions on and questions for the president's nominee.

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Jon Mani, a Charleston attorney, told Manchin he was concerned about Kavanaugh’s argument in a 2011 Minnesota Law Review article that sitting presidents should not be subject to prosecution while in office.

“You look at his writings, his opinions, he’s very very behind almost, an imperial executive theory,” Mani said. “The president is exempt from lawsuits while in office. Can’t be indicted while in office. This is terrifying,” he added.

“We’ve heard a lot about that,” Manchin said, pledging that his legal advisors were gathering all the information they could about Kavanaugh’s views on the topic and that he was sure to ask him about it.

Manchin is also asking West Virginians for their opinions in an online poll -- https://www.manchin.senate.gov/tell-joe-about-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states

I had a chance to speak with one of Manchin's staff last week. He said that they are getting tons of phone calls, and many, many of them are concerned with Kavanaugh's take on preexisting conditions specifically and the ACA in general.