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Former PresidentJimmy Carteris once again taking a stand against controversies stemming from the Trump Administration.
The Georgia Democrat, 94, said during a speech at Emory University on Wednesday thatPresident Trump‘s most recent Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, who wasconfirmed on Oct. 6, was “unfit” to serve on the nation’s highest legal body,according to the school’s newspaper,The Emory Wheel.
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Carter also called Kavanaugh partisan, concluding, “I was not in favor of his [confirmation].”
The Nobel Prize winner has beena vocal critic of politics in the Trump era, most recentlycalling out the president’s behaviorfollowing thedeath of Sen. John McCain.
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Carter, who, like McCain, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, added that Trump’s “early mistakes” in the matter were later “adequately corrected.”
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“I think both [Trump’s] critics and also his supporters made it plain to him that he had made a mistake when the flag was up and down and so forth,” Carter said. “But I think that his last statement that I read yesterday has basically corrected that and now the flag will be lowered in honor of John McCain’s service to our country until the appropriate time. So, I think the early mistakes that had been made have been adequately corrected.”
The Supreme Court’s Public Information Office did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
source: people.com
