That's my interpretation of FBI's Kavanaugh review. Trump asked the White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II to let the FBI investigate anything they want. Not so fast, responded McGahn:
Mr. McGahn, according to people familiar with the conversation, told the president that even though the White House was facing a storm of condemnation for limiting the F.B.I. background check into sexual misconduct allegations against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, a wide-ranging inquiry like some Democrats were demanding — and Mr. Trump was suggesting — would be potentially disastrous for Judge Kavanaugh’s chances of confirmation to the Supreme Court.
It would also go far beyond the F.B.I.’s usual “supplemental background investigation,” which is, by definition, narrow in scope.This is all popcorn-worthy. So is the interesting and novel question about the integrity of the current Supreme Court.
I guess if being cut from a whole cloth is integrity, then we have it. But on the whole (heh) the judicial branch is today merging with the executive branch.