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Trump’s hidden back channel to Justice Kennedy: Their kids

One back channel is the fact that Kennedy’s son, Justin, knows Donald Trump Jr. through New York real estate circles. Another is through Kennedy’s other son, Gregory, and Trump’s Silicon Valley adviser Peter Thiel. They went to Stanford Law School together and served as president of the Federalist Society in back-to-back years, according to school records. More recently, Kennedy’s firm, Disruptive Technology Advisers, has worked with Thiel’s company Palantir Technologies.

In fact, during the early months of the Trump administration, Gregory Kennedy has worked at NASA as a senior financial adviser as part of the so-called “beachhead” team. Both Kennedy boys were spotted at the White House last month for the administration’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration (Justice Kennedy is Irish Catholic). In February, Ivanka Trump attended oral arguments of the Supreme Court with her daughter. She was a guest of Justice Kennedy.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-supreme-court-236925

President Donald Trump plans to nominate Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be the next Labor secretary.

Scalia previously served as chief legal officer for the Labor Department during the George W. Bush administration, a position he took following a recess appointment by the former Republican president. He also worked as a special assistant to William Barr, now the attorney general, and was a speechwriter for Education Secretary William Bennett. Reached before the president’s Twitter announcement, Scalia declined to comment.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/18/trump-scalia-nomination-labor-chief-1422418

Newly confirmed Attorney General William Barr’s son-in-law just left his job in the Justice Department for a post in the White House counsel’s office, raising questions about a possible conflict of interest.

Tyler McGaughey, who is married to Barr’s youngest daughter, has duties in the new White House job that are unspecified, CNN reported. The counsel’s office “advises the President, the Executive Office of the President, and the White House staff on legal issues pertaining to the President and the White House,” the White House website says.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/william-barr-son-in-law-white-house_n_5c6bd826e4b0b9cc790012ce