lift off rule should you approach u.s. president trump. has nominated a consistently conservative judge brett kavanaugh to fill the vacancy on the supreme court in a move that will likely shape the top judicial body for years to come cavanagh is seen as a washington insider he noted his catholic faith and commitment to his religious community and he laid out his legal worldview saying quote a judge must be independent and must interpret the law not make the law. washington correspondent claire richardson has more on the announcement donald trump made his announcement on primetime t.v. in what has been an extraordinary opportunity for this president to choose a second nominee to sit on the supreme court records and a is going to have an enormous impact that will long outlast the trumpet ministration potentially ensuring a conservative majority on the united states top court for decades to come he s likely going to be the decisive vote on rulings that could under ravel progressive s big