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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7" title="برت کاوانا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="برت کاوانا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B8%8C%EB%A0%9B_%EC%BA%90%EB%B2%84%EB%85%B8" title="브렛 캐버노 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="브렛 캐버노" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%98_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%95" title="ברט קוואנו – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ברט קוואנו" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%A2_%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%9D" title="ბრეტ კავანო – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ბრეტ კავანო" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%85%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%85%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%89" title="ब्रेट कॅव्हॅनॉ – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="ब्रेट कॅव्हॅनॉ" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88" title="بريت كافانو – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="بريت كافانو" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC" title="ブレット・カバノー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ブレット・カバノー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh" title="Brett Kavanaugh – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Brett Kavanaugh" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a 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States">Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span>&#32;<br />October 6, 2018</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Nominated by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy">Anthony Kennedy</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Judge of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />May 30, 2006&#160;–&#32;October 6, 2018</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Nominated by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. 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Bush</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Laurence_Silberman" title="Laurence Silberman">Laurence Silberman</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Neomi_Rao" title="Neomi Rao">Neomi Rao</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/White_House_Office_of_the_Staff_Secretary" title="White House Office of the Staff Secretary">White House Staff Secretary</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />June 6, 2003&#160;–&#32;May 30, 2006</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. 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Bush</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harriet_Miers" title="Harriet Miers">Harriet Miers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Raul Yanes</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Brett Michael Kavanaugh</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1965-02-12</span>) </span>February 12, 1965<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age&#160;60)</span><br />Washington, D.C., U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a><sup id="cite_ref-Republican_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Republican-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Ashley_Estes_Kavanaugh" title="Ashley Estes Kavanaugh">Ashley Estes</a></div>&#32;<div style="display:inline-block;">&#8203;</div>&#40;<abbr title="married">m.</abbr>&#160;2004&#41;<wbr />&#8203;</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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New Jersey (2023)">New York v. New Jersey</a></i><br />Recorded April 18, 2023</div></div></div></div> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Brett Michael Kavanaugh</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="&#39;k&#39; in &#39;kind&#39;">k</span><span title="/æ/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;bad&#39;">æ</span><span title="&#39;v&#39; in &#39;vie&#39;">v</span><span title="/ə/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;about&#39;">ə</span><span title="&#39;n&#39; in &#39;nigh&#39;">n</span><span title="/ɔː/: &#39;au&#39; in &#39;fraud&#39;">ɔː</span></span>/</a></span></span>; born February 12, 1965) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an <a href="/wiki/Associate_justice_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States">associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States</a>. He was <a href="/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination">nominated</a> by President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> on July 9, 2018, and has served since October 6, 2018. He was previously a <a href="/wiki/United_States_circuit_judge" class="mw-redirect" title="United States circuit judge">U.S. circuit judge</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit">U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit</a> from 2006 to 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-confirmed_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-confirmed-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kavanaugh studied history at <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>, where he joined the <a href="/wiki/Delta_Kappa_Epsilon" title="Delta Kappa Epsilon">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a> fraternity. He then attended <a href="/wiki/Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School">Yale Law School</a>, after which he began his career as a <a href="/wiki/Law_clerk" title="Law clerk">law clerk</a> working under Judge <a href="/wiki/Ken_Starr" title="Ken Starr">Ken Starr</a>. After Starr left the D.C. Circuit to become the head of the Office of Independent Counsel, Kavanaugh assisted him with investigations concerning President <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>, including drafting the <i><a href="/wiki/Starr_Report" title="Starr Report">Starr Report</a></i> recommending <a href="/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton" title="Impeachment of Bill Clinton">Clinton's impeachment</a>. He joined the Bush administration as <a href="/wiki/White_House_Office_of_the_Staff_Secretary" title="White House Office of the Staff Secretary">White House staff secretary</a> and was a central figure in its efforts to identify and confirm judicial nominees.<sup id="cite_ref-nominees_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nominees-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Bush nominated Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2003. His confirmation hearings were contentious and stalled for three years over charges of partisanship. Kavanaugh was confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in May 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-confirmed_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-confirmed-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hearings_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hearings-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fuel_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fuel-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>President Trump <a href="/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination">nominated Kavanaugh</a> to the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Supreme Court">U.S. Supreme Court</a> on July 9, 2018, to fill the position vacated by Justice <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy">Anthony Kennedy</a>. Before his <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senate</a> confirmation proceedings began, <a href="/wiki/Christine_Blasey_Ford" title="Christine Blasey Ford">Christine Blasey Ford</a> accused Kavanaugh of <a href="/wiki/Sexually_assault" class="mw-redirect" title="Sexually assault">sexually assaulting</a> her in the early 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-Los_Angeles_Times_20180918_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Los_Angeles_Times_20180918-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Three other women also accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, one of whom later recanted her story.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_20180924_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_20180924-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-response3_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-response3-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-usatoday-20181103_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usatoday-20181103-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> None of the accusations were corroborated by eyewitness testimony, and Kavanaugh denied them. The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary">Senate Judiciary Committee</a> held a supplemental hearing over the allegations and voted 11–10 along party lines to advance the confirmation to a full Senate vote.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On October 6, the full Senate confirmed Kavanaugh by a vote of 50–48.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyt_sworn_in_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt_sworn_in-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the death of <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg" title="Ruth Bader Ginsburg">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a> in 2020, Kavanaugh has come to be regarded as a <a href="/wiki/Swing_vote" title="Swing vote">swing vote</a> on the Court.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PNASstudy21_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PNASstudy21-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was the target of <a href="/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh_assassination_plot" title="Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot">an assassination plot</a> in June 2022; the suspect had hoped to disrupt the rulings in <i><a href="/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_Health_Organization" title="Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#39;s Health Organization">Dobbs</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Rifle_%26_Pistol_Association,_Inc._v._Bruen" title="New York State Rifle &amp; Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen">Bruen</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2022NYT_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2022NYT-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2></div> <p>Kavanaugh was born on February 12, 1965, in Washington, D.C.,<sup id="cite_ref-cnnfastfacts_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnnfastfacts-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the son of Martha Gamble (<i>née</i> Murphy) and Everett Edward Kavanaugh Jr.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He is of <a href="/wiki/Irish_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Catholic">Irish Catholic</a> descent on both sides of his family. His paternal great-grandfather immigrated to the United States from <a href="/wiki/Roscommon" title="Roscommon">Roscommon, Ireland</a>, in the late 19th century,<sup id="cite_ref-auto_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and his maternal Irish lineage goes back to his great-great-grandparents settling in New Jersey.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh's father was a lawyer and served as the president of the <a href="/wiki/Personal_Care_Products_Council" title="Personal Care Products Council">Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association</a> for two decades.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTimestalwart_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTimestalwart-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His mother was a history teacher at <a href="/wiki/H.D._Woodson_High_School" class="mw-redirect" title="H.D. Woodson High School">Woodson</a> and <a href="/wiki/McKinley_Technology_High_School" title="McKinley Technology High School">McKinley</a> high schools in Washington in the 1960s and 1970s. She earned a <a href="/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">Juris Doctor</a> degree from <a href="/wiki/American_University" title="American University">American University</a> in 1978 and served from 1995 to 2001 as a <a href="/wiki/Maryland_Circuit_Courts" title="Maryland Circuit Courts">Maryland Circuit Court</a> judge in <a href="/wiki/Montgomery_County,_Maryland" title="Montgomery County, Maryland">Montgomery County, Maryland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kavanaugh was raised in <a href="/wiki/Bethesda,_Maryland" title="Bethesda, Maryland">Bethesda, Maryland</a>. As a teenager, he attended <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_Preparatory_School" title="Georgetown Preparatory School">Georgetown Preparatory School</a>, a Jesuit boys' college prep school, where he was two years ahead of <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch" title="Neil Gorsuch">Neil Gorsuch</a>, with whom he later clerked at the Supreme Court and eventually served with as a Supreme Court justice.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT11july18_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT11july18-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was captain of the school's basketball team and was a wide receiver and <a href="/wiki/Cornerback" title="Cornerback">cornerback</a> on the football team.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh was also friends with classmate <a href="/wiki/Mark_Judge_(writer)" title="Mark Judge (writer)">Mark Judge</a>; both were in the same <a href="/wiki/Cohort_(educational_group)" title="Cohort (educational group)">class</a> with <a href="/wiki/Maryland_State_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Maryland State Senate">Maryland state senator</a> <a href="/wiki/Richard_Madaleno" title="Richard Madaleno">Richard Madaleno</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-erinkelly_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-erinkelly-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-breakssilence_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-breakssilence-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kornhaber_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kornhaber-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In his yearbook Kavanaugh called himself a "Renate Alumnius", a reference to a female student at a nearby Catholic school.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTkkde_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTkkde-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After graduating from Georgetown Prep in 1983,<sup id="cite_ref-NYTkkde_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTkkde-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh went to <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>, as had his paternal grandfather.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Several of Kavanaugh's Yale classmates remembered him as a "serious but not showy student" who loved sports, especially basketball.<sup id="cite_ref-Richer_Peltz_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Richer_Peltz-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He unsuccessfully tried out for the <a href="/wiki/Yale_Bulldogs_men%27s_basketball" title="Yale Bulldogs men&#39;s basketball">Yale Bulldogs men's basketball</a> team and later played for two years on the <a href="/wiki/Junior_varsity_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Junior varsity team">junior varsity team</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Richer_Peltz_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Richer_Peltz-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He wrote articles about basketball and other sports for the <i><a href="/wiki/Yale_Daily_News" title="Yale Daily News">Yale Daily News</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Richer_Peltz_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Richer_Peltz-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and was a member of the fraternity <a href="/wiki/Delta_Kappa_Epsilon" title="Delta Kappa Epsilon">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Herbst_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herbst-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_Oct_2_18_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_Oct_2_18-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He graduated from Yale in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts <i><a href="/wiki/Latin_honors#North_America" title="Latin honors">cum laude</a></i> in history.<sup id="cite_ref-Richer_Peltz_37-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Richer_Peltz-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kavanaugh then attended <a href="/wiki/Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School">Yale Law School</a>, where he lived in a group house with future judge <a href="/wiki/James_E._Boasberg" class="mw-redirect" title="James E. Boasberg">James E. Boasberg</a> and played basketball with professor <a href="/wiki/George_L._Priest" title="George L. Priest">George L. Priest</a>, the sponsor of the school's <a href="/wiki/Federalist_Society" title="Federalist Society">Federalist Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT15july18_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT15july18-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was a member of the <i><a href="/wiki/Yale_Law_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Yale Law Journal">Yale Law Journal</a></i> and served as a notes editor during his third year. Kavanaugh graduated from Yale Law with a <a href="/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">Juris Doctor</a> degree in 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_career_(1990–2006)"><span id="Legal_career_.281990.E2.80.932006.29"></span>Legal career (1990–2006)</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brett_Kavanaugh_in_the_Oval_Office.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Brett_Kavanaugh_in_the_Oval_Office.jpg/220px-Brett_Kavanaugh_in_the_Oval_Office.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Brett_Kavanaugh_in_the_Oval_Office.jpg/330px-Brett_Kavanaugh_in_the_Oval_Office.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Brett_Kavanaugh_in_the_Oval_Office.jpg/440px-Brett_Kavanaugh_in_the_Oval_Office.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5725" data-file-height="3842" /></a><figcaption>Kavanaugh (second from left) with President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> and White House staffers</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Clerkships">Clerkships</h3></div> <p>Kavanaugh served as a <a href="/wiki/Law_clerk" title="Law clerk">law clerk</a> for Judge <a href="/wiki/Walter_King_Stapleton" title="Walter King Stapleton">Walter King Stapleton</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit">U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit</a> from 1990 to 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT15july18_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT15july18-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During his clerkship, Stapleton wrote the majority opinion in <i><a href="/wiki/Planned_Parenthood_v._Casey" title="Planned Parenthood v. Casey">Planned Parenthood v. Casey</a></i>, in which the Third Circuit upheld many of Pennsylvania's abortion restrictions.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT15july18_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT15july18-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh then clerked for Judge <a href="/wiki/Alex_Kozinski" title="Alex Kozinski">Alex Kozinski</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</a> from 1991 to 1992. Yale Law professor George Priest recommended Kavanaugh to Kozinski, who was regarded as a <a href="/wiki/Feeder_judge" title="Feeder judge">feeder judge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT15july18_40-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT15july18-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh interviewed for a clerkship with <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States">Chief Justice</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Rehnquist" title="William Rehnquist">William Rehnquist</a> of the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Supreme Court">U.S. Supreme Court</a> during the 1992 term, but was not offered a clerkship.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT15july18_40-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT15july18-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After working as a summer associate for the law firm <a href="/wiki/Munger,_Tolles_%26_Olson" title="Munger, Tolles &amp; Olson">Munger, Tolles &amp; Olson</a>, Kavanaugh earned a one-year fellowship with the <a href="/wiki/Solicitor_General_of_the_United_States" title="Solicitor General of the United States">Solicitor General of the United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ken_Starr" title="Ken Starr">Ken Starr</a>, from 1992 to 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-resume_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-resume-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SCOTUSblog2018june_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SCOTUSblog2018june-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He then clerked for Supreme Court Justice <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy">Anthony Kennedy</a> from 1993 to 1994,<sup id="cite_ref-resume_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-resume-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> alongside Neil Gorsuch and with future federal judge <a href="/wiki/Gary_Feinerman" title="Gary Feinerman">Gary Feinerman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT11july18_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT11july18-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ken_Starr_associate_counsel">Ken Starr associate counsel</h3></div> <p>After his Supreme Court clerkship, Kavanaugh again worked for Ken Starr until 1997 as an Associate Counsel in the Office of the <a href="/wiki/Independent_Counsel" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Counsel">Independent Counsel</a> with colleagues <a href="/wiki/Rod_Rosenstein" title="Rod Rosenstein">Rod Rosenstein</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alex_Azar" title="Alex Azar">Alex Azar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT4aug18_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT4aug18-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In that capacity, he reopened an investigation into the 1993 gunshot death of <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Foster" class="mw-redirect" title="Vincent Foster">Vincent Foster</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT4aug18_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT4aug18-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After three years, the investigation concluded that Foster had committed suicide. In a September 2018 <i>New York Times</i> <a href="/wiki/Op-ed" title="Op-ed">op-ed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a> history professor <a href="/wiki/Sean_Wilentz" title="Sean Wilentz">Sean Wilentz</a> criticized Kavanaugh for having invested federal money and other resources into investigating partisan <a href="/wiki/Suicide_of_Vince_Foster" title="Suicide of Vince Foster">conspiracy theories</a> surrounding the cause of Foster's death.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After working in private practice in 1997–98, Kavanaugh rejoined Starr as an Associate Counselor in 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-Nat_Law_Journal_20180713_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nat_Law_Journal_20180713-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Swidler_%26_Berlin_v._United_States" title="Swidler &amp; Berlin v. United States">Swidler &amp; Berlin v. United States</a></i> (1998), Kavanaugh argued his first and only case before the Supreme Court. Arguing for Starr's office, Kavanaugh asked the Court to disregard <a href="/wiki/Attorney%E2%80%93client_privilege" title="Attorney–client privilege">attorney–client privilege</a> in relation to the investigation of Foster's death.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The court rejected Kavanaugh's arguments by a vote of 6–3.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kavanaugh was a principal author of the <i><a href="/wiki/Starr_Report" title="Starr Report">Starr Report</a></i>, released in September 1998, on the <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>–<a href="/wiki/Monica_Lewinsky" title="Monica Lewinsky">Monica Lewinsky</a> <a href="/wiki/Clinton%E2%80%93Lewinsky_scandal" title="Clinton–Lewinsky scandal">sex scandal</a>; the report argued on broad grounds for Clinton's impeachment.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT4aug18_45-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT4aug18-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh had urged Starr to ask Clinton sexually graphic questions,<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and described Clinton as being involved in "a conspiracy to obstruct justice", having "disgraced his office" and "lied to the American people".<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The report provided extensive and explicit descriptions of each of Clinton's sexual encounters with Lewinsky, a level of detail the authors called "essential" to the case against Clinton.<sup id="cite_ref-protege_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-protege-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bush,_Card,_Kavanaugh,_and_Rice.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Bush%2C_Card%2C_Kavanaugh%2C_and_Rice.jpg/220px-Bush%2C_Card%2C_Kavanaugh%2C_and_Rice.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Bush%2C_Card%2C_Kavanaugh%2C_and_Rice.jpg/330px-Bush%2C_Card%2C_Kavanaugh%2C_and_Rice.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Bush%2C_Card%2C_Kavanaugh%2C_and_Rice.jpg/440px-Bush%2C_Card%2C_Kavanaugh%2C_and_Rice.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4442" data-file-height="3525" /></a><figcaption>Kavanaugh (blue shirt) with President Bush, <a href="/wiki/Andy_Card" class="mw-redirect" title="Andy Card">Andy Card</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice" title="Condoleezza Rice">Condoleezza Rice</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In December 2000, Kavanaugh joined the legal team of <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>, which was trying to stop <a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida" title="2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida">the ballot recount in Florida</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After Bush became president in January 2001, <a href="/wiki/White_House_Counsel" title="White House Counsel">White House Counsel</a> <a href="/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales" title="Alberto Gonzales">Alberto Gonzales</a> hired Kavanaugh as an associate.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT15july18_40-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT15july18-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There, Kavanaugh worked on the <a href="/wiki/Enron_scandal" title="Enron scandal">Enron scandal</a>, the successful nomination of Chief Justice <a href="/wiki/John_Roberts" title="John Roberts">John Roberts</a>, and the unsuccessful nomination of <a href="/wiki/Miguel_Estrada" title="Miguel Estrada">Miguel Estrada</a> to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit">Court of Appeals</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT15july18_40-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT15july18-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Starting in July 2003, he served as Assistant to the President and <a href="/wiki/White_House_Office_of_the_Staff_Secretary" title="White House Office of the Staff Secretary">White House staff secretary</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-SCOTUSblog2018june_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SCOTUSblog2018june-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> succeeding <a href="/wiki/Harriet_Miers" title="Harriet Miers">Harriet Miers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As the staff secretary, Kavanaugh was involved in the president's speechwriting process, helped put together legislation, and worked on drafting and revising executive orders.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was also responsible for coordinating all documents going to and from the president. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Private_practice">Private practice</h3></div> <p>From 1997 to 1998, Kavanaugh was an associate at the law firm <a href="/wiki/Kirkland_%26_Ellis" title="Kirkland &amp; Ellis">Kirkland &amp; Ellis</a>. Kavanaugh rejoined Kirkland &amp; Ellis in 1999 and eventually became a partner.<sup id="cite_ref-Nat_Law_Journal_20180713_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nat_Law_Journal_20180713-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SCOTUSblog2018june_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SCOTUSblog2018june-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While there in 2000, he was <i>pro bono</i> counsel of record for relatives of <a href="/wiki/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez" title="Elián González">Elián González</a>, a six-year-old rescued Cuban boy. After the boy's mother's death at sea, his relatives in the U.S. wanted to keep him from returning to the care of his sole surviving parent, his father in Cuba. Kavanaugh was among a series of lawyers who unsuccessfully sought to stop efforts to repatriate González to Cuba.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The district court, Circuit Court and Supreme Court all followed precedent, refusing to block the repatriation.<sup id="cite_ref-Kirkland_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirkland-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Also at Kirkland &amp; Ellis, Kavanaugh authored two <a href="/wiki/Amicus_brief" class="mw-redirect" title="Amicus brief">amicus briefs</a> to the Supreme Court that supported religious activities and expressions in public places.<sup id="cite_ref-Kirkland_61-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirkland-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The first, in <i><a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe_Independent_School_District_v._Doe" title="Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe">Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe</a></i> (2000), argued that a student speaker at football games voted for by a majority of students should be treated as private speech in a limited public forum; the second, in <i><a href="/wiki/Good_News_Club_v._Milford_Central_School" title="Good News Club v. Milford Central School">Good News Club v. Milford Central School</a></i>, argued that a Christian Bible instruction program should have the same after-school access to school facilities as other non-curriculum-related student groups.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Federalist_Society">Federalist Society</h3></div> <p>Kavanaugh has been a member of the <a href="/wiki/Federalist_Society" title="Federalist Society">Federalist Society</a> since 1988.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AG_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AG-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the administration of George W. Bush, he held a key position that involved judicial appointments. Bush judicial nominees who were Federalist Society members included <a href="/wiki/John_Roberts" title="John Roberts">John Roberts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Alito" title="Samuel Alito">Samuel Alito</a>, both appointed to the Supreme Court, and about half the judges appointed to the courts of appeals.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U.S._circuit_judge_(2006–2018)"><span id="U.S._circuit_judge_.282006.E2.80.932018.29"></span>U.S. circuit judge (2006–2018)</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brett_Michael_Kavanaugh_Takes_Oath.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Brett_Michael_Kavanaugh_Takes_Oath.jpg/220px-Brett_Michael_Kavanaugh_Takes_Oath.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Brett_Michael_Kavanaugh_Takes_Oath.jpg/330px-Brett_Michael_Kavanaugh_Takes_Oath.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Brett_Michael_Kavanaugh_Takes_Oath.jpg/440px-Brett_Michael_Kavanaugh_Takes_Oath.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5601" data-file-height="3534" /></a><figcaption>Kavanaugh is sworn into the D.C. Circuit by Justice <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy">Anthony Kennedy</a> as his wife holds the Bible and President Bush looks on, 2006. Coincidentally, Kavanaugh would be sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court 12 years later as Kennedy's replacement.</figcaption></figure> <p>President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> nominated Kavanaugh to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit</a> on July 25, 2003,<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but his nomination stalled in the Senate for nearly three years. Democratic senators accused him of being too partisan, with Senator <a href="/wiki/Dick_Durbin" title="Dick Durbin">Dick Durbin</a> calling him the "<a href="/wiki/Forrest_Gump" title="Forrest Gump">Forrest Gump</a> of Republican politics".<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2003, the <a href="/wiki/American_Bar_Association" title="American Bar Association">American Bar Association</a> had rated Kavanaugh "well qualified" (its highest category), but after doing dozens more interviews in 2006, downgraded him to "qualified".<sup id="cite_ref-selk_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-selk-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary">Senate Judiciary Committee</a> recommended he be confirmed on a 10–8 <a href="/wiki/Party-line_vote" title="Party-line vote">party-line vote</a> on May 11, 2006,<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and he was confirmed by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a> on May 26 by a vote of 57–36.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh was sworn in on June 1.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was the fourth judge nominated to the D.C. Circuit by Bush and confirmed. Kavanaugh began hearing cases on September 11 and had his formal investiture on September 27.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2007, senators <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Leahy" title="Patrick Leahy">Patrick Leahy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dick_Durbin" title="Dick Durbin">Dick Durbin</a> accused Kavanaugh of lying to the Judiciary Committee when he denied being involved in formulating the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies. In 2002, Kavanaugh had told other White House lawyers that he believed Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy would not approve of denying legal counsel to prisoners detained as enemy combatants.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The issue reemerged in July 2018 after Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notable_cases">Notable cases</h3></div> <p>On the 14 occasions on which Kavanaugh authored opinions that were considered by the Supreme Court, the Court adopted his position 13 times and reversed his position once. These included cases involving <a href="/wiki/Environmental_regulations" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental regulations">environmental regulations</a>, <a href="/wiki/Criminal_procedure" title="Criminal procedure">criminal procedure</a>, the separation of powers and <a href="/wiki/Extraterritorial_jurisdiction" title="Extraterritorial jurisdiction">extraterritorial jurisdiction</a> in human rights abuse cases.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT15july18_40-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT15july18-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ashby_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ashby-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was regarded as a <a href="/wiki/Feeder_judge" title="Feeder judge">feeder judge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Abortion">Abortion</h4></div> <p>In the October 2017 decision <i><a href="/wiki/Azar_v._Garza" title="Azar v. Garza">Garza v. Hargan</a></i>, Kavanaugh joined an unsigned, divided panel of the D.C. Circuit in holding that the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Refugee_Resettlement" title="Office of Refugee Resettlement">Office of Refugee Resettlement</a> does not violate an unaccompanied alien minor's constitutional right to an abortion by requiring that she first be appointed a sponsor before traveling to obtain the abortion, provided "the process of securing a sponsor to whom the minor is released occurs expeditiously".<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Harv2018_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harv2018-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Days later, the <i><a href="/wiki/En_banc" title="En banc">en banc</a></i> D.C. Circuit reversed that judgment, with Kavanaugh dissenting.<sup id="cite_ref-Harv2018_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harv2018-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In his dissent, he criticized the majority for creating "a new right for unlawful immigrant minors in U.S. government detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand".<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The girl then obtained an abortion.<sup id="cite_ref-Harv2018_81-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harv2018-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2018, in a follow-up petition from the <a href="/wiki/Solicitor_General_of_the_United_States" title="Solicitor General of the United States">Solicitor General of the United States</a>, the U.S. Supreme Court <a href="/wiki/Vacated_judgment" title="Vacated judgment">vacated</a> the <i>en banc</i> D.C. Circuit's judgment and the girl's claim was ultimately dismissed as <a href="/wiki/Mootness" title="Mootness">moot</a> and does not serve as precedent.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Affordable_Care_Act">Affordable Care Act</h4></div> <p>In November 2011, Kavanaugh dissented when the D.C. Circuit upheld the <a href="/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a> (ACA), arguing that the court lacked jurisdiction in the case.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In his dissent, he compared the individual mandate to a tax. After a unanimous panel found that the ACA did not violate the Constitution's <a href="/wiki/Origination_Clause" title="Origination Clause">Origination Clause</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Sissel_v._United_States_Department_of_Health_%26_Human_Services" title="Sissel v. United States Department of Health &amp; Human Services">Sissel v. United States Department of Health &amp; Human Services</a></i> (2014), Kavanaugh wrote a long dissent from the denial of rehearing <i>en banc</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In May 2015, he dissented from a decision that denied an en banc rehearing of <i>Priests for Life v. HHS</i>, in which the panel upheld the ACA's <a href="/wiki/Contraceptive_mandate" title="Contraceptive mandate">contraceptive mandate</a> accommodations against <a href="/wiki/Priests_for_Life" title="Priests for Life">Priests for Life</a><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">&#39;</span>s <a href="/wiki/Religious_Freedom_Restoration_Act" title="Religious Freedom Restoration Act">Religious Freedom Restoration Act</a> claims.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Zubik_v._Burwell" title="Zubik v. Burwell">Zubik v. Burwell</a></i> (2016), the Supreme Court vacated the circuit's judgment in a <a href="/wiki/Per_curiam_decision" title="Per curiam decision">per curiam decision</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Appointments_Clause_and_separation_of_powers">Appointments Clause and separation of powers</h4></div> <p>In August 2008, Kavanaugh dissented when the D.C. Circuit found that the Constitution's <a href="/wiki/Appointments_Clause" title="Appointments Clause">Appointments Clause</a> did not prevent the <a href="/wiki/Sarbanes%E2%80%93Oxley_Act" title="Sarbanes–Oxley Act">Sarbanes–Oxley Act</a> from creating a board whose members were not directly removable by the president.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Free_Enterprise_Fund_v._Public_Company_Accounting_Oversight_Board" title="Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board">Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board</a></i> (2010), the Supreme Court reversed the circuit court's judgment by a vote of 5–4.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, Kavanaugh found that those directly regulated by the <a href="/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau" title="Consumer Financial Protection Bureau">Consumer Financial Protection Bureau</a> (CFPB) could challenge the constitutionality of its design.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In October 2016, he wrote for a divided panel finding that the CFPB's design was unconstitutional, and made the CFPB director removable by the president of the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In January 2018, the <i>en banc</i> D.C. Circuit reversed that judgment by a vote of 7–3, over Kavanaugh's dissent.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Environmental_regulation">Environmental regulation</h4></div> <p>In 2013, Kavanaugh issued an <a href="/wiki/Prerogative_writ#United_States" title="Prerogative writ">extraordinary writ</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Mandamus" title="Mandamus">mandamus</a></i> requiring the <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_Regulatory_Commission" title="Nuclear Regulatory Commission">Nuclear Regulatory Commission</a> to process the license application of the <a href="/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository" title="Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository">Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository</a>, over the dissent of Judge <a href="/wiki/Merrick_Garland" title="Merrick Garland">Merrick Garland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In April 2014, Kavanaugh dissented when the court found that Labor Secretary <a href="/wiki/Tom_Perez" title="Tom Perez">Tom Perez</a> could issue workplace safety citations against <a href="/wiki/SeaWorld" title="SeaWorld">SeaWorld</a> regarding the multiple killings of its workers by <a href="/wiki/Tilikum_(orca)" title="Tilikum (orca)">Tilikum</a>, an orca.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Kavanaugh wrote for a divided panel striking down a <a href="/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(United_States)" title="Clean Air Act (United States)">Clean Air Act</a> regulation, the Supreme Court reversed by a vote of 6–2 in <i>EPA v. EME Homer City Generation, L.P.</i> (2014).<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh dissented from the denial of rehearing <i>en banc</i> of a unanimous panel opinion upholding the agency's regulation of <a href="/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions" title="Greenhouse gas emissions">greenhouse gas emissions</a> and the Supreme Court reversed by a vote of 5–4 in <i><a href="/wiki/Utility_Air_Regulatory_Group_v._Environmental_Protection_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency">Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency</a></i> (2014).<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After Kavanaugh dissented from a <a href="/wiki/Per_curiam_decision" title="Per curiam decision"><i>per curiam</i> decision</a> allowing the agency to disregard <a href="/wiki/Cost%E2%80%93benefit_analysis" title="Cost–benefit analysis">cost–benefit analysis</a>, the Supreme Court reversed by a vote of 5–4 in <i><a href="/wiki/Michigan_v._EPA" title="Michigan v. EPA">Michigan v. EPA</a></i> (2015).<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Extraterritorial_jurisdiction">Extraterritorial jurisdiction</h4></div> <p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Doe_v._Exxon_Mobil_Corp." title="Doe v. Exxon Mobil Corp.">Doe v. Exxon Mobil Corp.</a></i> (2007), Kavanaugh dissented when the circuit court allowed a lawsuit making <a href="/wiki/Accusations_of_ExxonMobil_human_rights_violations_in_Indonesia" class="mw-redirect" title="Accusations of ExxonMobil human rights violations in Indonesia">accusations of ExxonMobil human rights violations in Indonesia</a> to proceed, arguing that the claims were not <a href="/wiki/Justiciable" class="mw-redirect" title="Justiciable">justiciable</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He dissented again when the circuit court later found that the corporation could be sued under the <a href="/wiki/Alien_Tort_Statute" title="Alien Tort Statute">Alien Tort Statute</a> of 1789.<sup id="cite_ref-ashby_78-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ashby-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="First_Amendment_and_free_speech">First Amendment and free speech</h4></div> <p>Kavanaugh wrote for unanimous three-judge district courts when they held that the <a href="/wiki/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act" title="Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act">Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act</a> could restrict <a href="/wiki/Soft_money" class="mw-redirect" title="Soft money">soft money</a> donations to political parties and forbid campaign contributions by foreign citizens.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Supreme Court summarily affirmed both those judgments on direct appeal.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, Kavanaugh concurred in the judgment when the <i>en banc</i> D.C. Circuit found that the <a href="/wiki/Free_Speech_Clause" class="mw-redirect" title="Free Speech Clause">Free Speech Clause</a> did not forbid the government from requiring meatpackers to include a country of origin label on their products.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/United_States_Telecom_Association_v._FCC_(2016)" title="United States Telecom Association v. FCC (2016)">United States Telecom Ass'n v. FCC</a></i> (2016), he dissented when the <i>en banc</i> circuit refused to rehear a rejected challenge to the <a href="/wiki/Net_neutrality" title="Net neutrality">net neutrality</a> rule, writing, "Congress did not clearly authorize the FCC to issue the net neutrality rule."<sup id="cite_ref-SCOTUSblog2018june_43-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SCOTUSblog2018june-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fourth_Amendment_and_civil_liberties">Fourth Amendment and civil liberties</h4></div> <p>In November 2010, Kavanaugh dissented from the denial of rehearing <i>en banc</i> after the circuit found that attaching a <a href="/wiki/Global_Positioning_System" title="Global Positioning System">Global Positioning System</a> tracking device to a vehicle violated the <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution">Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Supreme Court then affirmed the circuit's judgment in <i><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Jones_(2012)" title="United States v. Jones (2012)">United States v. Jones</a></i> (2012).<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In February 2016, Kavanaugh dissented when the <i>en banc</i> circuit refused to rehear police officers' rejected claims of <a href="/wiki/Qualified_immunity" title="Qualified immunity">qualified immunity</a> for arresting partygoers in a vacant house.<sup id="cite_ref-SCOTUSblog2018june_43-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SCOTUSblog2018june-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Supreme Court unanimously reversed the circuit's judgment in <i><a href="/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Wesby" title="District of Columbia v. Wesby">District of Columbia v. Wesby</a></i> (2018).<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Klayman_v._Obama" title="Klayman v. Obama">Klayman v. Obama</a></i> (2015), Kavanaugh concurred when the circuit court denied an <i>en banc</i> rehearing of its decision to vacate a district court order blocking the <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a>'s warrantless bulk collection of telephony metadata,<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> writing that the metadata collection was not a search, and even if it were, no <a href="/wiki/Reasonable_suspicion" title="Reasonable suspicion">reasonable suspicion</a> would be required because of the government's special need to prevent terrorist attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="National_security">National security</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Tony_Blair.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Tony_Blair.jpg/220px-Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Tony_Blair.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Tony_Blair.jpg/330px-Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Tony_Blair.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Tony_Blair.jpg/440px-Brett_Kavanaugh_and_Tony_Blair.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4486" data-file-height="3135" /></a><figcaption>Kavanaugh holds his daughter while greeting British prime minister <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> and President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>. </figcaption></figure> <p>In April 2009, Kavanaugh wrote a long concurrence when the court found that detainees at the <a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp" title="Guantanamo Bay detention camp">Guantanamo Bay detention camp</a> had no right to advance notice before being transferred to another country.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Kiyemba_v._Bush" title="Kiyemba v. Bush">Kiyemba v. Bush</a></i> (2010), the Supreme Court vacated that judgment while refusing to review the matter.<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In June 2010, Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence in judgment when the <i>en banc</i> D.C. Circuit found that the <a href="/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factory" title="Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory">Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory</a> owners could not bring a <a href="/wiki/Defamation" title="Defamation">defamation</a> suit regarding the government's allegations that they were terrorists.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In October 2012, he wrote for a unanimous court when it found that the Constitution's <a href="/wiki/Ex_Post_Facto_Clause" class="mw-redirect" title="Ex Post Facto Clause">Ex Post Facto Clause</a> made it unlawful for the government to prosecute <a href="/wiki/Salim_Hamdan" title="Salim Hamdan">Salim Hamdan</a> under the <a href="/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006" title="Military Commissions Act of 2006">Military Commissions Act of 2006</a> on charges of <a href="/wiki/Providing_material_support_for_terrorism" title="Providing material support for terrorism">providing material support for terrorism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In August 2010, Kavanaugh wrote a lengthy concurrence when the <i>en banc</i> circuit refused to rehear <a href="/wiki/Ghaleb_Nassar_Al_Bihani" title="Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani">Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani</a>'s rejected claims that the international <a href="/wiki/Law_of_war" title="Law of war">law of war</a> limits the <a href="/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Terrorists" class="mw-redirect" title="Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists">Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2014, he concurred in the judgment when the <i>en banc</i> circuit found that <a href="/wiki/Ali_al-Bahlul" title="Ali al-Bahlul">Ali al-Bahlul</a> could be retroactively convicted of <a href="/wiki/War_crime" title="War crime">war crimes</a>, provided the existing statute already made it a crime "because it does not alter the definition of the crime, the defenses or the punishment".<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In October 2016, Kavanaugh wrote the <a href="/wiki/Plurality_opinion" class="mw-redirect" title="Plurality opinion">plurality opinion</a> when the <i>en banc</i> circuit found al-Bahlul could be convicted by a military commission even if his offenses are not internationally recognized as war crimes.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Meshal_v._Higgenbotham" title="Meshal v. Higgenbotham">Meshal v. Higgenbotham</a></i> (2016), Kavanaugh concurred when the divided panel threw out a claim by an American that he had been <a href="/wiki/Forced_disappearance" class="mw-redirect" title="Forced disappearance">disappeared</a> by the <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> in a Kenyan black site.<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Second_Amendment_and_gun_ownership">Second Amendment and gun ownership</h4></div> <p>In October 2011, Kavanaugh dissented when the circuit court found that a ban on the sale of <a href="/wiki/Semi-automatic_rifle" title="Semi-automatic rifle">semi-automatic rifles</a> was permissible under the <a href="/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Second Amendment to the United States Constitution">Second Amendment</a>. This case followed the landmark Supreme Court ruling <i><a href="/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller" title="District of Columbia v. Heller">District of Columbia v. Heller</a></i> (2008).<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Vaccine_regulation">Vaccine regulation</h4></div> <p>In March 2012, Kavanaugh wrote the opinion in <i><a href="/wiki/Coalition_for_Mercury-Free_Drugs_v._Sebelius" title="Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs v. Sebelius">Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs v. Sebelius</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> holding that opponents of <a href="/wiki/Thimerosal" class="mw-redirect" title="Thimerosal">thimerosal</a>-preserved <a href="/wiki/Vaccine" title="Vaccine">vaccines</a> lacked <a href="/wiki/Standing_(law)" title="Standing (law)">standing</a> to challenge determinations by the <a href="/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration" title="Food and Drug Administration">Food and Drug Administration</a> that vaccines and their components are safe and effective. <a href="/wiki/SCOTUSblog" title="SCOTUSblog">SCOTUSblog</a> provided the case as an example of the fact that "[e]ven when Kavanaugh rejects a claim, he sometimes uses his discussion of standing to show that he has heard the plaintiff's argument and taken it seriously".<sup id="cite_ref-SCOTUSblog_147-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SCOTUSblog-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bloomberg_News" title="Bloomberg News">Bloomberg</a> wrote, "Kavanaugh's opinion for the court repeatedly went out of its way to show it respected the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs's (CoMeD) 'genuine concern' regarding thimerosal", but nevertheless "said the coalition was required to seek a ban through the executive or legislative branches".<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Law_clerk_hiring_practices">Law clerk hiring practices</h3></div> <p>Twenty-five of Kavanaugh's 48 law clerks have been women, and 13 people of color.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_20180807_149-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo_20180807-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some have been children of other judges and high-profile legal figures, including Clayton Kozinski (son of former federal Judge <a href="/wiki/Alex_Kozinski" title="Alex Kozinski">Alex Kozinski</a>), Porter Wilkinson (daughter of Judge <a href="/wiki/J._Harvie_Wilkinson_III" title="J. Harvie Wilkinson III">J. Harvie Wilkinson III</a>), Philip Alito (son of <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Alito" title="Samuel Alito">Justice Samuel Alito</a>), Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld (daughter of Yale Law professors <a href="/wiki/Amy_Chua" title="Amy Chua">Amy Chua</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jed_Rubenfeld" title="Jed Rubenfeld">Jed Rubenfeld</a>), and Emily Chertoff (daughter of former DHS secretary <a href="/wiki/Michael_Chertoff" title="Michael Chertoff">Michael Chertoff</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 20, 2018, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> reported that two Yale professors had advised female law students at Yale that their physical appearance and femininity could play a role in securing a clerkship with Kavanaugh. Rubenfeld said that Kavanaugh "hires women with a certain look" but did not say what that "look" was.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_20180920_152-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian_20180920-152"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Unnamed sources reported that Chua said that female applicants should exude "model-like" femininity and "dress outgoing" in job interviews with Kavanaugh. Responding to the report, Chua denied that Kavanaugh's hiring decisions were affected by female applicants' attractiveness, saying, "Judge Kavanaugh's first and only litmus test in hiring has been excellence."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_20180920_152-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian_20180920-152"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Yale Law School Dean <a href="/wiki/Heather_Gerken" title="Heather Gerken">Heather Gerken</a> announced an investigation of the matter,<sup id="cite_ref-nbcnews.com_153-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nbcnews.com-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but Yale did not find any cause for sanction. Chua returned to regular teaching in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nomination_to_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States">Nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh_Supreme_Court_nomination" title="Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination">Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Kavanaugh_family_and_Donald_Trump.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/The_Kavanaugh_family_and_Donald_Trump.jpg/220px-The_Kavanaugh_family_and_Donald_Trump.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/The_Kavanaugh_family_and_Donald_Trump.jpg/330px-The_Kavanaugh_family_and_Donald_Trump.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/The_Kavanaugh_family_and_Donald_Trump.jpg/440px-The_Kavanaugh_family_and_Donald_Trump.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2800" data-file-height="1867" /></a><figcaption>Kavanaugh and his family with President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> on July 9, 2018</figcaption></figure> <p>On July 2, 2018, Kavanaugh was one of four U.S. Court of Appeals judges to receive a personal 45-minute interview by President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> as a potential replacement for Justice <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy">Anthony Kennedy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On July 9, Trump nominated Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.<sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In his first public speech after the nomination, Kavanaugh said, "No president has ever consulted more widely or talked with more people from more backgrounds to seek input about a Supreme Court nomination."<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span 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Mencken">Mencken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Meyer_(political_philosopher)" title="Frank Meyer (political philosopher)">Meyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Molnar" title="Thomas Molnar">Molnar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Murray_(political_scientist)" title="Charles Murray (political scientist)">Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Nisbet" title="Robert Nisbet">Nisbet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pangle" title="Thomas Pangle">Pangle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Crowe_Ransom" title="John Crowe Ransom">Ransom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Rieff" title="Philip Rieff">Rieff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Santayana" title="George Santayana">Santayana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Schaeffer" title="Francis Schaeffer">Schaeffer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sowell" title="Thomas Sowell">Sowell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gertrude_Stein" title="Gertrude Stein">Stein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Strauss" title="Leo Strauss">Strauss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Viereck" title="Peter Viereck">Viereck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Voegelin" title="Eric Voegelin">Voegelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_M._Weaver" title="Richard M. Weaver">Weaver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edith_Wharton" title="Edith Wharton">Wharton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Wolfe" title="Tom Wolfe">Wolfe</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #B0161E; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Politicians</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Abbott" title="Greg Abbott">Abbott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">Adams (John)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams" title="John Quincy Adams">Adams (John Quincy)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bolton" title="John Bolton">Bolton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Buchanan" title="James Buchanan">Buchanan (James)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan">Buchanan (Pat)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">Bush (George H. W.)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">Bush (George W.)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_C._Calhoun" title="John C. Calhoun">Calhoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Cheney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Clay" title="Henry Clay">Clay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Cleveland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Coolidge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ted_Cruz" title="Ted Cruz">Cruz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ron_DeSantis" title="Ron DeSantis">DeSantis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everett_Dirksen" title="Everett Dirksen">Dirksen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole">Dole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Eisenhower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Gingrich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Goldwater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_G._Harding" title="Warren G. Harding">Harding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_Helms" title="Jesse Helms">Helms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" title="Herbert Hoover">Hoover (Herbert)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Huckabee" title="Mike Huckabee">Huckabee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Cabot_Lodge" title="Henry Cabot Lodge">Lodge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce" title="Clare Boothe Luce">Luce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain">McCain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy" title="Joseph McCarthy">McCarthy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">McConnell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_McKinley" title="William McKinley">McKinley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Nixon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin">Palin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rand_Paul" title="Rand Paul">Paul (Rand)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ron_Paul" title="Ron Paul">Paul (Ron)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Pence" title="Mike Pence">Pence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Pierce" title="Franklin Pierce">Pierce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Randolph_of_Roanoke" title="John Randolph of Roanoke">Randolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Romney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marco_Rubio" title="Marco Rubio">Rubio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld">Rumsfeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan">Ryan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Santorum" title="Rick Santorum">Santorum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Sherman" title="John Sherman">Sherman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Taft" title="Robert A. Taft">Taft (Robert)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" title="William Howard Taft">Taft (William)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strom_Thurmond" title="Strom Thurmond">Thurmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/JD_Vance" title="JD Vance">Vance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Wallace" title="George Wallace">Wallace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz" title="Paul Wolfowitz">Wolfowitz</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #B0161E; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Jurists</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Alito" title="Samuel Alito">Alito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amy_Coney_Barrett" title="Amy Coney Barrett">Barrett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bork" title="Robert Bork">Bork</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_E._Burger" title="Warren E. Burger">Burger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Colson" title="Charles Colson">Colson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_T._Frelinghuysen" title="Frederick T. Frelinghuysen">Frelinghuysen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_P._George" title="Robert P. George">George</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Goldsmith" title="Jack Goldsmith">Goldsmith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch" title="Neil Gorsuch">Gorsuch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Marshall_Harlan_II" title="John Marshall Harlan II">Harlan II</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Kavanaugh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy">Kennedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Michael_Luttig" title="J. Michael Luttig">Luttig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Meese" title="Edwin Meese">Meese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor" title="Sandra Day O&#39;Connor">O'Connor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alton_B._Parker" title="Alton B. Parker">Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Rehnquist" title="William Rehnquist">Rehnquist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Roberts" title="John Roberts">Roberts (John)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Terry_Sanford" title="Edward Terry Sanford">Sanford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonin_Scalia" title="Antonin Scalia">Scalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Sessions" title="Jeff Sessions">Sessions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Sutherland" title="George Sutherland">Sutherland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" title="William Howard Taft">Taft (William)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarence_Thomas" title="Clarence Thomas">Thomas (Clarence)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Vermeule" title="Adrian Vermeule">Vermeule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Evans_Whittaker" title="Charles Evans Whittaker">Whittaker</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #B0161E; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Commentators</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sohrab_Ahmari" title="Sohrab Ahmari">Ahmari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck">Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Bongino" title="Dan Bongino">Bongino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Breitbart" title="Andrew Breitbart">Breitbart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan">Buchanan (Pat)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_F._Buckley_Jr." title="William F. Buckley Jr.">Buckley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tucker_Carlson" title="Tucker Carlson">Carlson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oren_Cass" title="Oren Cass">Cass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Chodorov" title="Frank Chodorov">Chodorov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Coulter" title="Ann Coulter">Coulter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza" title="Dinesh D&#39;Souza">D'Souza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Derbyshire" title="John Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_DiLorenzo" title="Thomas DiLorenzo">DiLorenzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rod_Dreher" title="Rod Dreher">Dreher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Elder" title="Larry Elder">Elder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg" title="Jonah Goldberg">Goldberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Grant_(radio_host)" title="Bob Grant (radio host)">Grant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alyssa_Farah_Griffin" title="Alyssa Farah Griffin">Griffin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_van_den_Haag" title="Ernest van den Haag">Van den Haag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sean_Hannity" title="Sean Hannity">Hannity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Hart" title="Jeffrey Hart">Hart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Will_Herberg" title="Will Herberg">Herberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Hoover" title="Margaret Hoover">Hoover (Margaret)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laura_Ingraham" title="Laura Ingraham">Ingraham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Jones" title="Alex Jones">Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megyn_Kelly" title="Megyn Kelly">Kelly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Kirk" title="Charlie Kirk">Kirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Knowles_(political_commentator)" title="Michael Knowles (political commentator)">Knowles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer" title="Charles Krauthammer">Krauthammer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tomi_Lahren" title="Tomi Lahren">Lahren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Levin" title="Mark Levin">Levin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh" title="Rush Limbaugh">Limbaugh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heather_Mac_Donald" title="Heather Mac Donald">Mac Donald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_John_Neuhaus" title="Richard John Neuhaus">Neuhaus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Ngo" title="Andy Ngo">Ngo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_North" title="Oliver North">North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Novak" title="Robert Novak">Novak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_O%27Reilly_(political_commentator)" title="Bill O&#39;Reilly (political commentator)">O'Reilly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candace_Owens" title="Candace Owens">Owens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Podhoretz" title="Norman Podhoretz">Podhoretz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Pool" title="Tim Pool">Pool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Portnoy" class="mw-redirect" title="David Portnoy">Portnoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Prager" title="Dennis Prager">Prager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Robertson" title="Pat Robertson">Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Shapiro" title="Ben Shapiro">Shapiro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amity_Shlaes" title="Amity Shlaes">Shlaes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan" title="Andrew Sullivan">Sullivan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Walsh_(political_commentator)" title="Matt Walsh (political commentator)">Walsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_Watters" title="Jesse Watters">Watters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Will" title="George Will">Will</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucian_Wintrich" title="Lucian Wintrich">Wintrich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Woods" title="Tom Woods">Woods</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #B0161E; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Activists</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Abramoff" title="Jack Abramoff">Abramoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Agostinelli" title="Robert Agostinelli">Agostinelli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Ahmanson_Jr." title="Howard Ahmanson Jr.">Ahmanson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Andreessen" title="Marc Andreessen">Andreessen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Atwater" title="Lee Atwater">Atwater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Bannon" title="Steve Bannon">Bannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaitlin_Bennett" title="Kaitlin Bennett">Bennett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov" title="Yuri Bezmenov">Bezmenov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Blum_(litigant)" title="Edward Blum (litigant)">Blum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L._Brent_Bozell_Jr." title="L. Brent Bozell Jr.">Bozell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Cohn" title="Roy Cohn">Cohn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Coors" title="Joseph Coors">Coors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Dans" title="Paul Dans">Dans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Dobson" title="James Dobson">Dobson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Dolan_(activist)" title="Terry Dolan (activist)">Dolan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Drudge" title="Matt Drudge">Drudge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Falwell" title="Jerry Falwell">Falwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Feulner" title="Edwin Feulner">Feulner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Flynn" title="Michael Flynn">Flynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brigitte_Gabriel" title="Brigitte Gabriel">Gabriel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Horowitz" title="David Horowitz">Horowitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Kauffman" title="Jeremy Kauffman">Kauffman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Krikorian_(activist)" title="Mark Krikorian (activist)">Krikorian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Kristol" title="Bill Kristol">Kristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_LaHaye" title="Tim LaHaye">LaHaye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Lindell" title="Mike Lindell">Lindell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh" title="Charles Lindbergh">Lindbergh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Leo" title="Leonard Leo">Leo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McEntee_(political_aide)" title="John McEntee (political aide)">McEntee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rebekah_Mercer" title="Rebekah Mercer">Mercer (Rebekah)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Mercer" title="Robert Mercer">Mercer (Robert)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Miller_(political_advisor)" title="Stephen Miller (political advisor)">Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch" title="Rupert Murdoch">Murdoch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elon_Musk" title="Elon Musk">Musk</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Views_of_Elon_Musk" title="Views of Elon Musk">Political views</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_O%27Keefe" title="James O&#39;Keefe">O'Keefe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yeonmi_Park" title="Yeonmi Park">Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Phillips_(activist)" title="Howard Phillips (activist)">Phillips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Posobiec" title="Jack Posobiec">Posobiec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Powell" title="Sidney Powell">Powell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libs_of_TikTok" title="Libs of TikTok">Raichik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Reed" title="Ralph Reed">Reed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Regnery" title="Henry Regnery">Regnery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Roberts_(political_strategist)" title="Kevin Roberts (political strategist)">Roberts (Kevin)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove">Rove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Rufo" title="Christopher Rufo">Rufo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_A._Rusher" title="William A. Rusher">Rusher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife" title="Richard Mellon Scaife">Scaife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Schlafly" title="Andrew Schlafly">Schlafly (Andrew)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly" title="Phyllis Schlafly">Schlafly (Phyllis)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Stone" title="Roger Stone">Stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Thiel" title="Peter Thiel">Thiel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Viguerie" title="Richard Viguerie">Viguerie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ginni_Thomas" title="Ginni Thomas">Thomas (Ginni)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Booker_T._Washington" title="Booker T. Washington">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Weyrich" title="Paul Weyrich">Weyrich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Wood" title="Robert E. Wood">Wood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susie_Wiles" title="Susie Wiles">Wiles</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #B0161E; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Literature</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers" title="The Federalist Papers">The Federalist Papers</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1788)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Democracy_in_America" title="Democracy in America">Democracy in America</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1835–1840)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Notes_on_Democracy" title="Notes on Democracy">Notes on Democracy</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1926)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Southern_Agrarians#I&#39;ll_Take_My_Stand" title="Southern Agrarians">I'll Take My Stand</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1930)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Our_Enemy,_the_State" title="Our Enemy, the State">Our Enemy, the State</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1935)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Managerial_Revolution" title="The Managerial Revolution">The Managerial Revolution</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1941)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ideas_Have_Consequences" title="Ideas Have Consequences">Ideas Have Consequences</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1948)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/God_and_Man_at_Yale" title="God and Man at Yale">God and Man at Yale</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1951)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Conservative_Mind" title="The Conservative Mind">The Conservative Mind</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1953)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Conscience_of_a_Conservative" title="The Conscience of a Conservative">The Conscience of a Conservative</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1960)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Choice_Not_an_Echo" title="A Choice Not an Echo">A Choice Not an Echo</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1964)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Losing_Ground_(book)" title="Losing Ground (book)">Losing Ground</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1984)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Conflict_of_Visions" title="A Conflict of Visions">A Conflict of Visions</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1987)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind" title="The Closing of the American Mind">The Closing of the American Mind</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1987)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bell_Curve:_Intelligence_and_Class_Structure_in_American_Life" class="mw-redirect" title="The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life">The Bell Curve</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1994)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Revolt_of_the_Elites" title="The Revolt of the Elites">The Revolt of the Elites</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1995)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Death_of_the_West" title="The Death of the West">The Death of the West</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2001)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Blank_Slate" title="The Blank Slate">The Blank Slate</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2002)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Rednecks_and_White_Liberals" title="Black Rednecks and White Liberals">Black Rednecks and White Liberals</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2005)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hillbilly_Elegy" title="Hillbilly Elegy">Hillbilly Elegy</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2017)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Benedict_Option" title="The Benedict Option">The Benedict Option</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2017)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Why_Liberalism_Failed" title="Why Liberalism Failed">Why Liberalism Failed</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2018)</span></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #B0161E; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Concerns</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States" title="Abortion in the United States">Abortion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_decline" title="American decline">American decline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cancel_culture#American_public_opinion" title="Cancel culture">Cancel Culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culture_war#United_States" title="Culture war">Culture war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_multiculturalism#United_States" title="Criticism of multiculturalism">Multiculturalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disparate_impact#Controversy" title="Disparate impact">"Disparate impact" controversy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020s_controversies_around_critical_race_theory" title="2020s controversies around critical race theory">CRT controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion#Criticism_and_controversy" title="Diversity, equity, and inclusion">DEI controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co." title="Griggs v. Duke Power Co.">Griggs v. Duke Power Co.</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Higher_education_bubble_in_the_United_States" title="Higher education bubble in the United States">Higher ed. bubble</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Go_woke,_go_broke" title="Go woke, go broke">Go woke, go broke</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Environmental,_social,_and_governance#Criticism" title="Environmental, social, and governance">ESG</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Corporate_sociopolitical_activism#Counter-movement" title="Corporate sociopolitical activism">Woke capitalism</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homeschooling#United_States" title="Homeschooling">Homeschooling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_reduction_in_the_United_States" title="Immigration reduction in the United States">Immigration reduction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Illegal immigration to the United States">Illegal immigration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States_and_crime" title="Illegal immigration to the United States and crime">Immigration and crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border_crisis" title="Mexico–United States border crisis">Border crisis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intelligence_and_public_policy" title="Intelligence and public policy">Intelligence and public policy</a></li> <li>Constitutional interpretations <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Originalism" title="Originalism">Originalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Textualism" title="Textualism">Textualism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Managerial_state" title="Managerial state">Managerial state</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mudsill_theory" title="Mudsill theory">Mudsill theory</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms_in_the_United_States" title="Right to keep and bear arms in the United States">Second Amendment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility#United_States" title="Sub-replacement fertility">Sub-replacement fertility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory" title="Unitary executive theory">Unitary executive</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #B0161E; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Parties</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"><b>Active</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Party_(1969)" title="American Party (1969)">American Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Independent_Party" title="American Independent Party">American Independent Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_New_York_State" title="Conservative Party of New York State">Conservative Party of New York State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_Party_(United_States)" title="Constitution Party (United States)">Constitution Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a></li></ul> <p><b>Defunct</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Masonic_Party" title="Anti-Masonic Party">Anti-Masonic Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Union_Party_(United_States)" title="Constitutional Union Party (United States)">Constitutional Union Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a> (<i>historically, factions</i>) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boll_weevil_(politics)" title="Boll weevil (politics)">Boll weevils</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bourbon_Democrat" title="Bourbon Democrat">Bourbon Democrats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Democrat" title="Conservative Democrat">Conservative Democrats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dixiecrat" title="Dixiecrat">Dixiecrats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reagan_Democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Reagan Democrats">Reagan Democrats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Democrat">Southern Democrats</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorr_Rebellion" title="Dorr Rebellion">Rhode Island Suffrage Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federalist_Party" title="Federalist Party">Federalist Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Republican_Party" title="National Republican Party">National Republican Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_American_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American Party">Native American Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)" title="Whig Party (United States)">Whig Party</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #B0161E; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Think tanks</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acton_Institute" title="Acton Institute">Acton Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution" title="Alexis de Tocqueville Institution">AdTI</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Advancing_American_Freedom&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Advancing American Freedom (page does not exist)">Advancing American Freedom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute">AEI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Center_for_Security_Policy" title="Center for Security Policy">CSP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Center_for_the_National_Interest" title="Center for the National Interest">Center for the National Interest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claremont_Institute" title="Claremont Institute">Claremont Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute">CEI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Horowitz_Freedom_Center" title="David Horowitz Freedom Center">CSPC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethics_and_Public_Policy_Center" title="Ethics and Public Policy Center">EPPC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Family_Research_Institute" title="Family Research Institute">FRI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gatestone_Institute" title="Gatestone Institute">Gatestone Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute">Heartland Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation">The Heritage Foundation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heritage_Action" title="Heritage Action">Heritage Action</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mandate_for_Leadership" title="Mandate for Leadership">Mandate for Leadership</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_2025" title="Project 2025">Project 2025</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoover_Institution" title="Hoover Institution">Hoover Institution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hudson_Institute" title="Hudson Institute">Hudson Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intercollegiate_Studies_Institute" title="Intercollegiate Studies Institute">ISI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Madison_Program_in_American_Ideals_and_Institutions" title="James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions">James Madison Program</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leadership_Institute" title="Leadership Institute">Leadership Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy_Research" title="Manhattan Institute for Policy Research">Manhattan Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mises_Institute" title="Mises Institute">Mises Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Research_Institute" title="Pacific Research Institute">PRI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century" title="Project for the New American Century">Project for the New American Century</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Defunct)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ripon_Society" title="Ripon Society">Ripon Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R_Street_Institute" title="R Street Institute">R Street Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockford_Institute" title="Rockford Institute">Rockford Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Policy_Network" title="State Policy Network">SPN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutherland_Institute" title="Sutherland Institute">Sutherland Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tax_Foundation" title="Tax Foundation">Tax Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Witherspoon_Institute" title="Witherspoon Institute">Witherspoon Institute</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #B0161E; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Media</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <p><b>Newspapers</b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Epoch_Times" title="The Epoch Times">The Epoch Times</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_Union_Leader" title="New Hampshire Union Leader">New Hampshire Union Leader</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Jewish_Voice" title="The Jewish Voice">The Jewish Voice</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Observer" title="The New York Observer">The New York Observer</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Post" title="New York Post">New York Post</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Remnant_(newspaper)" title="The Remnant (newspaper)">The Remnant</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Editorial_board_at_The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="Editorial board at The Wall Street Journal">(editorial board)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Times" title="The Washington Times">The Washington Times</a></i></li></ul> <p><b>Journals</b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Affairs" title="American Affairs">American Affairs</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_American_Conservative" title="The American Conservative">The American Conservative</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_American_Spectator" title="The American Spectator">The American Spectator</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Thinker" title="American Thinker">American Thinker</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/City_Journal" title="City Journal">City Journal</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Claremont_Review_of_Books" title="Claremont Review of Books">Claremont Review of Books</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Commentary_(magazine)" title="Commentary (magazine)">Commentary</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Compact_(American_magazine)" title="Compact (American magazine)">Compact</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chronicles_(magazine)" title="Chronicles (magazine)">Chronicles</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dispatch" title="The Dispatch">The Dispatch</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/First_Things" title="First Things">First Things</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Imaginative_Conservative" title="The Imaginative Conservative">The Imaginative Conservative</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jewish_World_Review" title="Jewish World Review">Jewish World Review</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Modern_Age_(periodical)" title="Modern Age (periodical)">Modern Age</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/National_Affairs" title="National Affairs">National Affairs</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_National_Interest" title="The National Interest">The National Interest</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_American" title="The New American">The New American</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Atlantis_(journal)" title="The New Atlantis (journal)">The New Atlantis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Criterion" title="The New Criterion">The New Criterion</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Policy_Review" title="Policy Review">Policy Review</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(defunct)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Public_Discourse" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Discourse">Public Discourse</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Southern_Partisan" title="Southern Partisan">Southern Partisan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Spectator_USA" class="mw-redirect" title="Spectator USA">Spectator USA</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tablet_(magazine)" title="Tablet (magazine)">Tablet</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Taki%27s_Magazine" title="Taki&#39;s Magazine">Taki's Magazine</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Telos_(journal)" title="Telos (journal)">Telos</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Washington_Examiner" title="Washington Examiner">Washington Examiner</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard" title="The Weekly Standard">The Weekly Standard</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(defunct)</span></li></ul> <p><b>TV channels</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Broadcasting_Network" title="Christian Broadcasting Network">CBN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fox_Business" title="Fox Business">Fox Business</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newsmax_TV" title="Newsmax TV">Newsmax TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/One_America_News_Network" title="One America News Network">One America News Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VOZ_(media_company)" title="VOZ (media company)">VOZ</a></li></ul> <p><b>Websites</b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Babylon_Bee" title="The Babylon Bee">Babylon Bee</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Breitbart_News" title="Breitbart News">Breitbart News</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bulwark_(website)" title="The Bulwark (website)">The Bulwark</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Campus_Reform" title="Campus Reform">Campus Reform</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Center_Square" title="The Center Square">The Center Square</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Review" title="Conservative Review">Conservative Review</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Caller" title="The Daily Caller">Daily Caller</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Signal" title="The Daily Signal">Daily Signal</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Wire" title="The Daily Wire">Daily Wire</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Discover_the_Networks" title="Discover the Networks">Discover the Networks</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Federalist_(website)" title="The Federalist (website)">The Federalist</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/FrontPage_Magazine" title="FrontPage Magazine">FrontPage Magazine</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Front_Porch_Republic" title="Front Porch Republic">Front Porch Republic</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Gateway_Pundit" title="The Gateway Pundit">Gateway Pundit</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hot_Air" title="Hot Air">Hot Air</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Human_Events" title="Human Events">Human Events</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Independent_Journal_Review" title="Independent Journal Review">Independent Journal Review</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/InfoWars" class="mw-redirect" title="InfoWars">InfoWars</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jihad_Watch" title="Jihad Watch">Jihad Watch</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/LifeZette" title="LifeZette">LifeZette</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NewsBusters" class="mw-redirect" title="NewsBusters">NewsBusters</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/PJ_Media" title="PJ Media">PJ Media</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rare_(website)" title="Rare (website)">Rare</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/RedState" title="RedState">RedState</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dispatch" title="The Dispatch">The Dispatch</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Townhall" title="Townhall">Townhall</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twitchy" title="Twitchy">Twitchy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Washington_Examiner" title="Washington Examiner">Washington Examiner</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Free_Beacon" title="The Washington Free Beacon">The Washington Free Beacon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Western_Journal" title="The Western Journal">The Western Journal</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/WorldNetDaily" title="WorldNetDaily">WorldNetDaily</a></i></li></ul> <p><b>Other</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blaze_Media" title="Blaze Media">Blaze Media</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Encounter_Books" title="Encounter Books">Encounter Books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evie_Magazine" title="Evie Magazine">Evie Magazine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_First_TV" title="The First TV">The First</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Imprimis" title="Imprimis">Imprimis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Political_Cesspool" title="The Political Cesspool">The Political Cesspool</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passage_Publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="Passage Publishing">Passage Publishing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PragerU" title="PragerU">PragerU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RealClearPolitics" title="RealClearPolitics">RealClearPolitics</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Red_Scare_(podcast)" title="Red Scare (podcast)">Red Scare</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regnery_Publishing" title="Regnery Publishing">Regnery Publishing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right_Side_Broadcasting_Network" title="Right Side Broadcasting Network">RSBN</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rubin_Report" title="The Rubin Report">The Rubin Report</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group" title="Sinclair Broadcast Group">Sinclair Broadcast Group</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #B0161E; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Other organizations</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <p><b>Congressional caucuses</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_Amendment_Caucus" title="Second Amendment Caucus">Second Amendment Caucus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee">RSC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_Caucus" title="Liberty Caucus">Liberty Caucus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_Caucus" title="Freedom Caucus">Freedom Caucus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Main_Street_Partnership" title="Republican Main Street Partnership">Republican Main Street Partnership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Governance_Group" title="Republican Governance Group">Republican Governance Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition" title="Blue Dog Coalition">Blue Dog Coalition</a></li></ul> <p><b>Economics</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform" title="Americans for Tax Reform">ATR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Club_for_Growth" title="Club for Growth">Club for Growth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FreedomWorks" title="FreedomWorks">FreedomWorks</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(defunct)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Federation_of_Independent_Business" title="National Federation of Independent Business">NFIB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Taxpayers_Union" title="National Taxpayers Union">NTU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tea_Party_Patriots" title="Tea Party Patriots">Tea Party Patriots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="United States Chamber of Commerce">USCC</a></li></ul> <p><b>Gun rights</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gun_Owners_of_America" title="Gun Owners of America">GOA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Association_for_Gun_Rights" title="National Association for Gun Rights">NAGR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association">NRA</a></li></ul> <p><b>Identity politics</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ACT_for_America" title="ACT for America"><i>ACT!</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concerned_Women_for_America" title="Concerned Women for America">CWA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Conservative_Citizens" title="Council of Conservative Citizens">Council of Conservative Citizens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gays_Against_Groomers" title="Gays Against Groomers">GAG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_Women%27s_Forum" title="Independent Women&#39;s Forum">IWF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans" title="Log Cabin Republicans">LCR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moms_for_Liberty" title="Moms for Liberty">Moms for Liberty</a></li></ul> <p><b>Nativist</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Center_for_Immigration_Studies" title="Center for Immigration Studies">CIS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federation_for_American_Immigration_Reform" title="Federation for American Immigration Reform">FAIR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immigration_Restriction_League" title="Immigration Restriction League">Immigration Restriction League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NumbersUSA" title="NumbersUSA">NumbersUSA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oath_Keepers" title="Oath Keepers">Oath Keepers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three_Percenters" title="Three Percenters">Three Percenters</a></li></ul> <p><b>Religion</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alliance_Defending_Freedom" title="Alliance Defending Freedom">ADF</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_court_cases_involving_Alliance_Defending_Freedom" title="List of court cases involving Alliance Defending Freedom">Court cases</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Center_for_Law_%26_Justice" title="American Center for Law &amp; Justice">ACLJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Family_Association" title="American Family Association">AFA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Society_for_the_Defense_of_Tradition,_Family_and_Property" title="American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property">The American TFP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chalcedon_Foundation" title="Chalcedon Foundation">Chalcedon Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Coalition_of_America" title="Christian Coalition of America">CCA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Voice_(United_States)" title="Christian Voice (United States)">Christian Voice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eagle_Forum" title="Eagle Forum">Eagle Forum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Family_Research_Council" title="Family Research Council">FCR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fellowship_(Christian_organization)" title="The Fellowship (Christian organization)">The Fellowship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faith_and_Freedom_Coalition" title="Faith and Freedom Coalition">FFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Focus_on_the_Family" title="Focus on the Family">Focus on the Family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foundation_for_Moral_Law" title="Foundation for Moral Law">Foundation for Moral Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_Counsel" title="Liberty Counsel">Liberty Counsel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moral_Majority" title="Moral Majority">Moral Majority</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(defunct)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Organization_for_Marriage" title="National Organization for Marriage">NOM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Right_to_Life_Committee" title="National Right to Life Committee">NRLC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parents_Television_and_Media_Council" title="Parents Television and Media Council">PTMC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony_Pro-Life_America" title="Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America">Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_More_Law_Center" title="Thomas More Law Center">Thomas More Law Center</a></li></ul> <p><b>Watchdog groups</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Accuracy_in_Media" title="Accuracy in Media">AIM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Econ_Journal_Watch" title="Econ Journal Watch">Econ Journal Watch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_News_Foundation" title="Franklin News Foundation">Franklin News Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judicial_Watch" title="Judicial Watch">JW</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Media_Research_Center" title="Media Research Center">MRC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/O%27Keefe_Media_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="O&#39;Keefe Media Group">O'Keefe Media Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Veritas" title="Project Veritas">Project Veritas</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(defunct)</span></li></ul> <p><b>Youth/student groups</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Journalism_Center" title="National Journalism Center">NJC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turning_Point_USA" title="Turning Point USA">TPUSA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom" title="Young Americans for Freedom">Young Americans for Freedom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_America%27s_Foundation" title="Young America&#39;s Foundation">Young America's Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Liberty" title="Young Americans for Liberty">YAL</a></li></ul> <p><b>Miscellaneous</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_85_Fund" title="The 85 Fund">The 85 Fund</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton_Institute_for_the_Study_of_Western_Civilization" title="Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization">AHI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Conservative_Union" title="American Conservative Union">ACU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bradley_Foundation" title="Bradley Foundation">Bradley Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Conservative_Caucus" title="The Conservative Caucus">TCC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy" title="Council for National Policy">CNP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference" title="Conservative Political Action Conference">CPAC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hillsdale_College" title="Hillsdale College">Hillsdale College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idaho_Freedom_Foundation" title="Idaho Freedom Foundation">IFF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Birch_Society" title="John Birch Society">JBS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_M._Olin_Foundation" title="John M. Olin Foundation">John M. Olin Foundation</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(defunct)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_Fund" title="Liberty Fund">Liberty Fund</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_University" title="Liberty University">LU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Scholars" title="National Association of Scholars">NAS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Society" title="Philadelphia Society">Philadelphia Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regent_University" title="Regent University">Regent University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russell_Kirk_Center_for_Cultural_Renewal" title="Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal">Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Public_Policy_Foundation" title="Texas Public Policy Foundation">TPPF</a></li></ul> <p><b>Other</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/America_First_Legal" title="America First Legal">AFL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlas_Network" title="Atlas Network">Atlas Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collegiate_Network" title="Collegiate Network">CN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ConservAmerica" title="ConservAmerica">ConservAmerica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donors_Trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Donors Trust">Donors Trust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federalist_Society" title="Federalist Society">FedSoc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gab_(social_network)" title="Gab (social network)">Gab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gettr" title="Gettr">Gettr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Conservative_Political_Action_Committee" title="National Conservative Political Action Committee">NCPAC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Justice_Institute" title="Pacific Justice Institute">PJI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parler" title="Parler">Parler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(app)" title="The Right Stuff (app)">The Right Stuff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turning_Point_Action" title="Turning Point Action">Turning Point Action</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Society_for_American_Civic_Renewal" title="Society for American Civic Renewal">SACR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_Republicans" title="Young Republicans">YRNF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ziklag_(organization)" title="Ziklag (organization)">Ziklag</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #B0161E; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Movements</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asian_American_and_Pacific_Islands_American_conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Asian American and Pacific Islands American conservatism in the United States">Asian and Pacific Islander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Black conservatism in the United States">Black</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_right" title="Christian right">Christian right</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_reconstructionism#Influence_on_the_Christian_right_in_general" title="Christian reconstructionism">Reconstructionism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classical_education_movement" title="Classical education movement">Classical education movement</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Paideia" title="Paideia">Paideia</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment" title="Dark Enlightenment">Dark Enlightenment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Women in conservatism in the United States">Female</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_conservatism#United_States" title="Green conservatism">Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Hispanic and Latino conservatism in the United States">Hispanic and Latino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_conservatism_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT conservatism in the United States">LGBT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Republican" title="Libertarian Republican">Libertarian republicans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_militia_movement" title="American militia movement">Militia movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monarchism_in_the_United_States" title="Monarchism in the United States">Monarchism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_and_politics_in_the_United_States" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and politics in the United States">Mormon</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/White_Horse_Prophecy" title="White Horse Prophecy">White Horse Prophecy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Theodemocracy" title="Theodemocracy">Theodemocracy</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parental_rights_movement" title="Parental rights movement">Parental rights movement</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fathers%27_rights_movement" title="Fathers&#39; rights movement">Fathers' rights</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patriot_movement" title="Patriot movement">Patriot movement</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Patriot_movement" title="Christian Patriot movement">Christian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radical_right_(United_States)" title="Radical right (United States)">Radical right</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reactionary_feminism" title="Reactionary feminism">Reactionary feminism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right-libertarianism#United_States" title="Right-libertarianism">Right-libertarianism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paleolibertarianism" title="Paleolibertarianism">Paleolibertarianism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secession_in_the_United_States" title="Secession in the United States">Secessionism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Confederates" title="Neo-Confederates">Neo-Confederates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_secession_movements" title="Texas secession movements">in Texas</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trumpism" title="Trumpism">Trumpism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Never_Trump_movement" title="Never Trump movement">Never Trump</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #B0161E; 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Wade">Roe v. Wade</a></i>, which ruled abortion bans unconstitutional, and <i><a href="/wiki/Furman_v._Georgia" title="Furman v. Georgia">Furman v. Georgia</a></i>, which ruled all existing death penalty statutes unconstitutional.<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Two law professors evaluated Kavanaugh's appellate court decisions for the <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">Washington Post</a>,</i> rating his decisions in four areas: rights of criminal defendants; support for rules regarding stricter enforcement of environmental protection; upholding the rights of labor unions; and siding with those bringing suits alleging discrimination. They found he had the most conservative voting record on the D.C. Circuit in three of those policy areas, and the second-most in the fourth, between 2003 and 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo2018-09-05_163-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo2018-09-05-163"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his hearing, Kavanaugh said that he had often said the four greatest moments in Supreme Court history were <i><a href="/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education" title="Brown v. Board of Education">Brown v. Board of Education</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison" title="Marbury v. Madison">Marbury v. Madison</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Youngstown_Sheet_%26_Tube_Co._v._Sawyer" title="Youngstown Sheet &amp; Tube Co. v. Sawyer">Youngstown Steel</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Nixon" title="United States v. Nixon">United States v. Nixon</a></i>, with <i>Brown</i> the single greatest.<sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Judicial_Common_Space" title="Judicial Common Space">Judicial Common Space</a> scores, a score based on the ideology scores of the home state senators and the president who nominated the judge to the <a href="/wiki/Federal_bench" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal bench">federal bench</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Thomas" title="Clarence Thomas">Clarence Thomas</a> was the only justice more conservative than Kavanaugh. By this metric, Kavanaugh's <a href="/wiki/Nomination_and_confirmation_to_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Nomination and confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States">confirmation</a> shifted the court to the right.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Had <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>'s nominee <a href="/wiki/Merrick_Garland" title="Merrick Garland">Merrick Garland</a> been confirmed in 2016, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Breyer" title="Stephen Breyer">Stephen Breyer</a> would have become the median <a href="/wiki/Swing_vote" title="Swing vote">swing vote</a> when Kennedy retired. However, since <a href="/wiki/Antonin_Scalia" title="Antonin Scalia">Antonin Scalia</a> was replaced by another conservative (Gorsuch), it was expected that Chief Justice <a href="/wiki/John_Roberts" title="John Roberts">John Roberts</a> would become the median swing vote on the Supreme Court upon Kavanaugh's confirmation.<sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Senate_Judiciary_Committee_public_hearings">Senate Judiciary Committee public hearings</h3></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary">Senate Judiciary Committee</a> scheduled three or four days of public hearings on Kavanaugh's nomination, commencing on September 4, 2018. The hearings were delayed at the onset by objections from the Democratic members about the absence of records of Kavanaugh's time in the George W. Bush administration. The Democrats also complained that 42,000 pages of documents had been received only the night before the first day of hearings.<sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Republicans asserted that the volume of documents available on Kavanaugh equaled that of the previous five nominees to the court; the Democrats responded that only 15% of the documents they had requested about Kavanaugh had been provided. Numerous motions by the Democrats to adjourn or suspend the hearings were ruled out of order by Chairman <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Grassley" title="Chuck Grassley">Chuck Grassley</a>, who argued that Kavanaugh had written over 300 legal opinions available for review. The first day's session closed after statements from each senator and the nominee, with question-and-answer periods to begin the next day.<sup id="cite_ref-168" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the first round of questions from senators on September 5, 2018, Kavanaugh held to his earlier stated position that he would not express an opinion on matters that might come before the Court. He thus refused to promise to <a href="/wiki/Judicial_disqualification" class="mw-redirect" title="Judicial disqualification">recuse</a> himself from any case, including any that might involve Trump. He also declined to comment on coverage of preexisting healthcare conditions, semiautomatic rifle possession, <i>Roe v. Wade</i>, or the president's power to self-pardon. He expounded at length on various Constitutional amendments, <a href="/wiki/Stare_decisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Stare decisis">stare decisis</a> (the role of legal precedent in shaping subsequent judicial rulings), and the president's power to dismiss federal employees. As in the previous session, there were frequent outbursts of protest in the audience, requiring security intervention and removal, as well as repeated procedural objections by Democrats.<sup id="cite_ref-169" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The committee's third day of hearings began with a furor over the release of emails by Kavanaugh related to concern about potential racial profiling in security screenings. The day continued with Kavanaugh's attempts to articulate his jurisprudence, including refusing to answer direct questions about matters he called hypothetical.<sup id="cite_ref-170" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Senator <a href="/wiki/Chris_Coons" title="Chris Coons">Chris Coons</a> had tendered Kavanaugh written questions about any knowledge of inappropriate behavior on the part of judge <a href="/wiki/Alex_Kozinski" title="Alex Kozinski">Alex Kozinski</a>, for whom Kavanaugh had clerked, including his circulations of sexually explicit emails via his "Easy Rider Gag List". According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Intercept" title="The Intercept">The Intercept</a></i>, though Coons had asked him to review his emails from Kozinski, Kavanaugh replied, "I do not remember".<sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During his testimony, Kavanaugh said that Kozinski's 2017 exposure as an alleged prolific sexual harasser was a surprising "gut punch". <i>The Guardian</i> reported that their sources disputed Kavanaugh's account because Kozinski's alleged behavior was reportedly widely known among those in the judicial system and its exposure culminated in his abrupt resignation from the bench.<sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-172"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Email_leak"></span> The committee released a 2003 email in which Kavanaugh said, "I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to [<i>Roe v. Wade</i>] as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since Court can always overrule its precedent, and three current justices on the Court would do so."<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh stressed that he was commenting on the views of legal scholars at the time, not his own views, and noted that the case had been reaffirmed on a number of occasions since 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Senator <a href="/wiki/Susan_Collins" title="Susan Collins">Susan Collins</a> indicated that Kavanaugh's statement did not contradict his personal assurance to her that <i>Roe</i> is settled law.<sup id="cite_ref-175" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-175"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh noted that <i><a href="/wiki/Planned_Parenthood_v._Casey" title="Planned Parenthood v. Casey">Planned Parenthood v. Casey</a></i> (1992), which reaffirmed <i>Roe v. Wade</i>, was "precedent on precedent". According to Kavanaugh, <i>Casey</i> is a key decision about when the Court's precedent may be overturned.<sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 27, the committee held an additional day of public hearings to discuss allegations that Kavanaugh engaged in sexual misconduct while in high school. The only witnesses were Kavanaugh and <a href="/wiki/Christine_Blasey_Ford" title="Christine Blasey Ford">Christine Blasey Ford</a>, his accuser.<sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Republican members of the committee did not question Ford directly; questioning on their behalf was done by <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Mitchell" title="Rachel Mitchell">Rachel Mitchell</a>, a career prosecutor from Maricopa County, Arizona.<sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Grassley cut her questioning short, after which the Republican members of the committee questioned him themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-179" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Alternating with their questions, Democratic members of the committee questioned Ford and Kavanaugh.<sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ford repeated and expanded upon her earlier allegations, saying that Kavanaugh and his friend <a href="/wiki/Mark_Judge_(writer)" title="Mark Judge (writer)">Mark Judge</a>, both "visibly drunk", had locked her into a bedroom, where Kavanaugh groped her and tried to take off her clothes while Judge watched. She said she "believed he was going to rape me" and feared for her life when he held his hand over her mouth. In his opening statement, Kavanaugh claimed the accusations were a "political hit" by <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">left-wing activists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrats</a>, saying he faced retaliation "on behalf of the Clintons" for his work on the <a href="/wiki/Starr_Report" title="Starr Report">Starr Report</a> against <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_182-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Hill_20180927_183-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Hill_20180927-183"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Vice_20180927_184-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vice_20180927-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Leland Keyser, Ford's friend who Ford said was present during the alleged attack, has denied that it took place, and questioned certain aspects of the story. Keyser also stated she felt pressured by people to support Ford's story, something she told the FBI about.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_185-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-185"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In response to his testimony, more than 2,400 law professors signed a letter saying that the Senate should not confirm him because "he did not display the impartiality and judicial temperament requisite to sit on the highest court of our land."<sup id="cite_ref-186" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-186"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sexual_assault_allegations">Sexual assault allegations</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Christine_Blasey_Ford">Christine Blasey Ford</h4></div> <p>In early July 2018, Kavanaugh's name was on a shortlist of nominees for the Supreme Court. <a href="/wiki/Christine_Blasey_Ford" title="Christine Blasey Ford">Christine Blasey Ford</a>, a psychology professor at <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto_University" title="Palo Alto University">Palo Alto University</a>, contacted a <a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post"><i>Washington Post</i></a> tipline and her U.S. Representative, <a href="/wiki/Anna_Eshoo" title="Anna Eshoo">Anna Eshoo</a>, with accusations that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were in high school.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_187-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On July 30, 2018, Ford wrote to Senator <a href="/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein" title="Dianne Feinstein">Dianne Feinstein</a> to inform her of her accusation against Kavanaugh,<sup id="cite_ref-188" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> requesting that it be kept confidential.<sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After a September 12 report in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Intercept" title="The Intercept">The Intercept</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_187-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-190" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Feinstein confirmed that a complaint had been made against Kavanaugh by a woman who had requested not to be identified. Feinstein said that the woman had claimed that, when they were both in high school, Kavanaugh had tried to force himself on her while she was being physically restrained.<sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The same day, Feinstein said she had forwarded the woman's accusation to federal authorities.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-feinstein-investigations_193-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-feinstein-investigations-193"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CNBC-Kavanaugh-denies_194-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBC-Kavanaugh-denies-194"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 16, Ford publicized her allegations and claimed Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when she was 15 and he was 17.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_20180916_195-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo_20180916-195"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-196" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-196"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> She said that in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Judge_(writer)" title="Mark Judge (writer)">Mark Judge</a>, one of Kavanaugh's friends from Georgetown Prep, corralled her in a bedroom at a house party in Maryland and turned up the music playing in the room. According to Ford, Kavanaugh pinned her to the bed, groped her, ground against her, tried to pull off her clothes, and covered her mouth with his hand when she tried to scream.<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ford said she was afraid that Kavanaugh might inadvertently kill her during the attack,<sup id="cite_ref-HuffPost_20180916_198-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HuffPost_20180916-198"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and believed he was going to rape her.<sup id="cite_ref-199" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-199"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ford stated that she escaped when Judge jumped on the bed, knocking them all to the floor.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_20180916_195-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo_20180916-195"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-200" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-200"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kavanaugh issued the following statement through the White House: "I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time."<sup id="cite_ref-CNBC-Kavanaugh-denies_194-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBC-Kavanaugh-denies-194"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT-feinstein-investigations_193-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-feinstein-investigations-193"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Republicans criticized the decision to withhold "a vague, anonymous accusation for months" before releasing it on the "eve of [Kavanaugh's] confirmation" as an attempt to delay his confirmation hearings.<sup id="cite_ref-fox_news_65_women_201-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fox_news_65_women-201"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nat_rev_kavanaugh_character_202-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nat_rev_kavanaugh_character-202"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh released a statement on the evening before his and Ford's scheduled testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He said that due to the serious nature of the allegations, both he and Ford deserved to be heard. He also stated, "I am innocent of this charge."<sup id="cite_ref-203" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-203"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 19, the Senate Judiciary Committee invited Kavanaugh and Ford to testify about the allegation. Kavanaugh agreed to testify on September 19.<sup id="cite_ref-204" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-204"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ford requested that the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a> investigate the matter first, but Judiciary Committee chair <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Grassley" title="Chuck Grassley">Chuck Grassley</a> declined the request, and gave Ford a deadline of September 21 to inform the committee whether she intended to testify. He added that Ford was welcome to appear before the committee privately or publicly.<sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On September 20, Ford's attorney opened negotiations with the committee to reschedule the hearing under "terms that are fair and which ensure her safety".<sup id="cite_ref-206" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A bipartisan Judiciary Committee panel and Ford's representatives agreed to a hearing after September 24.<sup id="cite_ref-207" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ford stated that Leland Ingham Keyser, a lifelong friend, was present at the party where the alleged assault took place. On September 22, Keyser stated through her attorney that she did not know Kavanaugh and had no memory of the party or a sexual assault. The attorney did confirm that Keyser was a friend of Ford's,<sup id="cite_ref-208" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-208"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and Keyser told <i>The Washington Post</i> that she believed Ford's allegation.<sup id="cite_ref-209" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dickerson_210-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dickerson-210"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 4, 2018, the White House announced that it had found no corroboration of Ford's allegation after reviewing the FBI's latest probe into Kavanaugh's past.<sup id="cite_ref-211" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-211"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Her attorneys tweeted, "Those directing the FBI investigation were not interested in seeking the truth."<sup id="cite_ref-230am_212-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-230am-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2019, <i>New York Times</i> reporters <a href="/wiki/Kate_Kelly_(journalist)" title="Kate Kelly (journalist)">Kate Kelly</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robin_Pogrebin" title="Robin Pogrebin">Robin Pogrebin</a> published <i>The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation</i>. They reported that Keyser "thought the whole setup Ford described ... sounded wrong", and that she "challenged Ford's accuracy", quoting Keyser as saying, "I don't have any confidence in the story".<sup id="cite_ref-NYTinvestigation_213-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTinvestigation-213"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to <i>The Washington Post</i>, the book revealed that "Keyser also said she spoke with many people who 'wanted me to remember something different'—suggesting that there was pressure on her to toe the line [against Kavanaugh]".<sup id="cite_ref-WaPoKeyser2019_214-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPoKeyser2019-214"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Keyser felt she was being pressured to alter her story via veiled threats of exposing her "addictive tendencies".<sup id="cite_ref-215" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-215"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (August 2024)">page&#160;needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Deborah_Ramirez">Deborah Ramirez</h4></div> <p>On September 23, 2018, <a href="/wiki/Ronan_Farrow" title="Ronan Farrow">Ronan Farrow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jane_Mayer" title="Jane Mayer">Jane Mayer</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> published an article with another sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh. Deborah Ramirez, who attended Yale University with Kavanaugh, alleged he <a href="/wiki/Indecent_exposure_in_the_United_States" title="Indecent exposure in the United States">exposed himself</a> to her and thrust his penis against her face after they had both been drinking at a college party during the 1983–84 academic year. Kavanaugh said, "This alleged event from 35 years ago did not happen."<sup id="cite_ref-Farrow_216-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farrow-216"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The New Yorker</i> spoke to four classmates, three identified as eyewitnesses but all denied witnessing the event.<sup id="cite_ref-Farrow_216-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farrow-216"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The New York Times</i> interviewed several dozen of Ramirez's classmates in an attempt to corroborate her story, and could find no firsthand witnesses to the alleged assault, but several classmates recalled that they had heard about it in the subsequent days and believed Ramirez.<sup id="cite_ref-217" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-217"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to <i>The New York Times</i>, "Ramirez herself told the press and friends that, initially, she was not absolutely certain it was Kavanaugh who assaulted her, but after corresponding with friends who had secondhand knowledge of the incident, and taking time to refresh her recollection, stated that she was certain Kavanaugh was her assailant."<sup id="cite_ref-218" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-218"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The Washington Post</i> analyzed Ramirez's allegation and concluded, "Ramirez's accusation has the dual distinction of having more potential corroboration and less actual corroboration than Ford's".<sup id="cite_ref-WaPoRamirez_219-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPoRamirez-219"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Julie_Swetnick">Julie Swetnick</h4></div> <p>Attorney <a href="/wiki/Michael_Avenatti" title="Michael Avenatti">Michael Avenatti</a> tweeted on September 23, 2018, that he represented a woman who had "credible information" about Kavanaugh and Judge. Avenatti said his client would be willing to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-220" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>220<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-221" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-221"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>221<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-222" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-222"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On September 26, Avenatti revealed the woman to be Julie Swetnick, a former government employee. In a sworn statement, Swetnick described attending "well over ten house parties in the Washington, D.C. area during the years 1981–1983 where Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh were present". She described witnessing efforts by Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh to cause girls to become inebriated so they could be gang raped. Kavanaugh called her allegations "ridiculous" and Avenatti's allegation as a whole a "farce".<sup id="cite_ref-response3_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-response3-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> reported that it had contacted "dozens" of her former classmates and colleagues but failed to reach anyone with knowledge of her allegations and that none of her friends had come forward publicly to support her claims.<sup id="cite_ref-223" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-223"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In an interview with NBC News, Swetnick clarified that she did not personally witness Kavanaugh or Judge spike any drinks, and accused Avenatti of twisting her words. She further clarified that she did not personally witness efforts by Kavanaugh or Judge to cause girls to become inebriated so they could be gang raped. Swetnick provided NBC News with the names of friends who attended the parties, but none could corroborate her claims, while some said they did not know her.<sup id="cite_ref-cnbc_2018-10-01_224-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnbc_2018-10-01-224"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-225" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-225"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Grassley referred Swetnick and Avenatti to the Justice Department for criminal investigation regarding claims that they engaged in "conspiracy, false statements and obstruction of Congress".<sup id="cite_ref-226" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-226"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Judy_Munro-Leighton">Judy Munro-Leighton</h4></div> <p>On September 19, Judy Munro-Leighton accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault in an anonymous letter signed "<a href="/wiki/Jane_Doe" class="mw-redirect" title="Jane Doe">Jane Doe</a>", which was addressed to Grassley but mailed to Senator <a href="/wiki/Kamala_Harris" title="Kamala Harris">Kamala Harris</a>. On September 26, the Senate committee interrogated Kavanaugh about this accusation. Kavanaugh called the accusation "ridiculous".<sup id="cite_ref-usatoday-20181103_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usatoday-20181103-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On November 1, Munro-Leighton talked to committee staff members. During the conversation she changed her story, denying that she had penned the anonymous letter and saying she had contacted Congress as "a ploy" to "get attention".<sup id="cite_ref-227" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-227"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>227<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On November 2, Grassley announced Munro-Leighton's identity, and described her accusations as fabricated.<sup id="cite_ref-usatoday-20181103_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usatoday-20181103-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> She was referred to the Department of Justice and FBI for making false accusations and <a href="/wiki/Obstructing_justice" class="mw-redirect" title="Obstructing justice">obstructing justice</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-usatoday-20181103_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usatoday-20181103-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="FBI_investigation_and_ethics_complaints">FBI investigation and ethics complaints</h4></div> <p>At the conclusion of the hearing, the Republican leadership of the committee indicated that they planned to hold a committee vote on the nomination the next day, September 28, with a procedural vote on the Senate floor on September 29.<sup id="cite_ref-ABA_228-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABA-228"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On September 28, the committee voted along party lines to advance the nomination to the full Senate; Senator <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Flake" title="Jeff Flake">Jeff Flake</a>'s vote in support was conditioned on delaying the vote in the full Senate for a week to allow the FBI to investigate Ford's claims. Later, Senators <a href="/wiki/Joe_Manchin" title="Joe Manchin">Joe Manchin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Murkowski" title="Lisa Murkowski">Lisa Murkowski</a> also said they would not vote to confirm without an FBI investigation.<sup id="cite_ref-229" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-229"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>229<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On this request from the Judiciary Committee, Trump ordered a "supplemental investigation to update Judge Kavanaugh's file", to be limited in scope and completed within a week.<sup id="cite_ref-trumporders_230-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trumporders-230"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The report was transmitted to the White House on October 3 and from there to the Senate on October 4, where senators were permitted to review the report one at a time in secrecy. On October 5, the Judiciary Committee reported that it found "no corroboration of the allegations" against Kavanaugh.<sup id="cite_ref-231" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-231"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>231<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Majority Leader <a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">Mitch McConnell</a> said the Senate would vote on the confirmation on October 6.<sup id="cite_ref-232" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-232"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>232<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Democrats called the FBI investigation incomplete, a "farce", a "sham" and "a horrific cover-up" that omitted key witnesses at the White House's direction.<sup id="cite_ref-233" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-233"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-234" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-234"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>234<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to <i>The Washington Post</i>, the White House stopped the FBI from investigating possible falsehoods in Kavanaugh's testimony to Congress about his drinking habits during his youth.<sup id="cite_ref-230am_212-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-230am-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Eighty-three ethics complaints were brought against Kavanaugh regarding his conduct during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Chief Justice Roberts appointed a special federal panel of judges to investigate them. In December 2018, the panel dismissed all the complaints, calling them "serious" but deciding that lower court judges have no authority to investigate Supreme Court justices.<sup id="cite_ref-235" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-235"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2023_Justice_film">2023 <i>Justice</i> film</h4></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Doug_Liman" title="Doug Liman">Doug Liman</a>'s 2023 documentary <a href="/wiki/Justice_(2023_film)" title="Justice (2023 film)"><i>Justice</i></a> recounts the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh, including the testimony of Ford and Ramirez. It features a never-before-heard audio recording made by <a href="/wiki/Partnership_for_Public_Service" title="Partnership for Public Service">Partnership for Public Service</a> president and CEO <a href="/wiki/Max_Stier" title="Max Stier">Max Stier</a>, a Yale colleague of Kavanaugh's, that corroborates Ramirez's charges and suggests that Kavanaugh violated another unnamed woman. Stier says that he witnessed Kavanaugh with his pants down with a group of rowdy soccer players forcing a drunk female freshman to hold Kavanaugh's penis. Stier also says that he had heard from classmates about Ramirez's similar encounter with Kavanaugh, which she personally describes in the film.<sup id="cite_ref-236" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-236"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>236<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The documentary also highlights the narratives Kavanaugh advanced to sway public opinion and gain Republicans' support, arguing that Kavanaugh and his team were aware of Ford's and Ramirez's charges before they became public and preemptively countered them by planting alternate narratives with friends and acquaintances.<sup id="cite_ref-237" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-237"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-238" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-238"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>238<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Senate_action">Senate action</h3></div> <p>On October 5, the Senate voted 51–49 to invoke <a href="/wiki/Cloture" title="Cloture">cloture</a>, advancing the nomination to a final floor vote expected on October 6. This was enabled through the application of the so-called "<a href="/wiki/Nuclear_option" title="Nuclear option">nuclear option</a>", or a simple majority vote, rather than the historical three-fifths <a href="/wiki/Supermajority" title="Supermajority">supermajority</a> in place before April 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-239" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-239"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>239<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The vote was along party lines, with the exception of Democrat <a href="/wiki/Joe_Manchin" title="Joe Manchin">Joe Manchin</a> voting yes and Republican <a href="/wiki/Lisa_Murkowski" title="Lisa Murkowski">Lisa Murkowski</a> voting no.<sup id="cite_ref-240" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>240<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-241" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-241"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>241<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 6, the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court by a 50–48 vote.<sup id="cite_ref-242" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>242<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> One senator, Republican <a href="/wiki/Steve_Daines" title="Steve Daines">Steve Daines</a>, who supported the nomination, was absent during the vote due to his attendance at his daughter's wedding that day, and Murkowski voted "present" despite her opposition so that their votes would cancel out and the balance of the vote would be retained—a rarely used traditional courtesy known as a "<a href="/wiki/Pair_(parliamentary_convention)" title="Pair (parliamentary convention)">pair between senators</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-243" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-243"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>243<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> All Republicans except Daines and Murkowski voted to confirm Kavanaugh, and all Democrats except <a href="/wiki/Joe_Manchin" title="Joe Manchin">Joe Manchin</a> voted not to.<sup id="cite_ref-244" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-244"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>244<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh's confirmation vote was historically close. The only Supreme Court confirmation that was closer was the vote on <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Matthews_(judge)" title="Stanley Matthews (judge)">Stanley Matthews</a>, nominated by President <a href="/wiki/James_A._Garfield" title="James A. Garfield">James A. Garfield</a> in 1881. Matthews was confirmed by a single vote, 24–23; no other justice has been confirmed by a single vote.<sup id="cite_ref-245" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-245"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>245<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-246" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-246"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>246<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-247" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-247"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>247<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In <i>percentage</i> terms, Kavanaugh's vote was even closer than Matthews's. Matthews received 51.06% of the vote to Kavanaugh's 51.02%.<sup id="cite_ref-248" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-248"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>248<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Swearing-in">Swearing-in</h3></div> <p>Kavanaugh was sworn in as the 114th justice of the Supreme Court on the evening of October 6, 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-249" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-249"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>249<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Constitutional Oath was administered by Chief Justice Roberts and the Judicial Oath was administered by Kennedy, whom Kavanaugh succeeded on the Court. This private ceremony was followed by a public ceremony at the White House on October 8.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_sworn_in_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt_sworn_in-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-250" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-250"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>250<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-251" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-251"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>251<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Upon joining the Court, Kavanaugh became the first Supreme Court justice to hire an all-female team of law clerks.<sup id="cite_ref-252" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-252"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>252<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-253" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-253"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U.S._Supreme_Court_(2018–present)"><span id="U.S._Supreme_Court_.282018.E2.80.93present.29"></span>U.S. Supreme Court (2018–present)</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Supreme_Court_Justice_Brett_Kavanaugh_Swearing-In_Ceremony.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Supreme_Court_Justice_Brett_Kavanaugh_Swearing-In_Ceremony.jpg/220px-Supreme_Court_Justice_Brett_Kavanaugh_Swearing-In_Ceremony.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Supreme_Court_Justice_Brett_Kavanaugh_Swearing-In_Ceremony.jpg/330px-Supreme_Court_Justice_Brett_Kavanaugh_Swearing-In_Ceremony.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Supreme_Court_Justice_Brett_Kavanaugh_Swearing-In_Ceremony.jpg/440px-Supreme_Court_Justice_Brett_Kavanaugh_Swearing-In_Ceremony.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Kavanaugh being sworn in to succeed Anthony Kennedy as an associate justice on October 8, 2018</figcaption></figure> <p>Kavanaugh began his tenure as Supreme Court justice on October 9, 2018, hearing arguments for <i><a href="/wiki/Stokeling_v._United_States" title="Stokeling v. United States">Stokeling v. United States</a></i> and <i>United States v. Stitt</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-254" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-254"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>254<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Circuit_assignment">Circuit assignment</h3></div> <p>In November 2020, Kavanaugh was reassigned to both the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Sixth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit">Sixth Circuit</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Eighth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit">Eighth Circuit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-255" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-255"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>255<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He had previously been assigned to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Seventh_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit">Seventh Circuit</a>, which covers federal courts in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.<sup id="cite_ref-CircuitAssignments_256-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CircuitAssignments-256"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>256<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Circuit justices are principally responsible for responding to emergency requests (for example, applications for emergency stays of executions)<sup id="cite_ref-257" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-257"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> that arise from the circuit's jurisdiction, either by the assigned justice alone or else by the justice's referring them to the full Court for review. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_decisions">Early decisions</h3></div> <p>Kavanaugh wrote his first Supreme Court opinion on January 8, 2019, in <i>Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer &amp; White Sales, Inc.</i>, a unanimous decision reversing an appeals court opinion that had allowed a court to decide whether an issue in a contract between a dental equipment manufacturer and distributor should be decided by arbitration.<sup id="cite_ref-258" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-258"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On February 27, Kavanaugh joined Roberts and the court's liberal justices in <i><a href="/wiki/Garza_v._Idaho" title="Garza v. Idaho">Garza v. Idaho</a></i>, a case in which the Court held that the <a href="/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_of_the_United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution">Sixth Amendment</a>'s presumption of prejudice resulting from ineffective assistance of counsel applies to situations in which an attorney declines to file an appeal because an appeal waiver was signed as part of a plea agreement.<sup id="cite_ref-259" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-259"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>259<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abortion_2">Abortion</h3></div> <p>In December 2018, as a swing vote, Kavanaugh joined Roberts and the Court's four more liberal justices to decline to hear cases brought by Louisiana and Kansas, which sought to block women from choosing to receive Medicaid-funded medical care from <a href="/wiki/Planned_Parenthood" title="Planned Parenthood">Planned Parenthood</a> clinics. Two lower appeals courts had ruled that the federal law creating Medicaid protects patients' rights to choose any provider which is "qualified to perform" the needed services.<sup id="cite_ref-260" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-260"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>260<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2019, Kavanaugh joined three of his conservative colleagues in voting to reject a stay of a Louisiana law to restrict abortion.<sup id="cite_ref-261" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-261"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>261<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He issued his own dissenting opinion.<sup id="cite_ref-262" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-262"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>262<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>CNBC</i> reported that "Kavanaugh agreed [with three conservative justices], but wrote separately that he would be open to reconsidering the legality of the law if the dire warnings from abortion rights groups materialized."<sup id="cite_ref-263" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-263"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Supreme Court decided this case, <i><a href="/wiki/June_Medical_Services,_LLC_v._Russo" title="June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo">June Medical Services L. L. C. v. Russo</a></i>, on June 29, 2020, striking down Louisiana's requirement for abortion providers to hold hospital admitting privileges. Kavanaugh dissented.<sup id="cite_ref-264" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>264<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In September 2021, by a 5–4 vote, the Court <a href="/wiki/Whole_Woman%27s_Health_v._Jackson#Supreme_Court" title="Whole Woman&#39;s Health v. Jackson">declined an emergency petition to temporarily block enforcement</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Heartbeat_Act" title="Texas Heartbeat Act">Texas Heartbeat Act</a>, which bans nearly all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Kavanaugh was in the majority, joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Barrett.<sup id="cite_ref-265" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-265"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In June 2022, in <i><a href="/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_Health_Organization" title="Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#39;s Health Organization">Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization</a></i>, Kavanaugh joined the same four justices in voting to completely overturn <i><a href="/wiki/Roe_v._Wade" title="Roe v. Wade">Roe v. Wade</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Planned_Parenthood_v._Casey" title="Planned Parenthood v. Casey">Planned Parenthood v. Casey</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-266" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-266"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>266<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh later wrote the opinion of the court in <i><a href="/wiki/FDA_v._Alliance_for_Hippocratic_Medicine" title="FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine">FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine</a></i>, ruling that AHM could not sue to prevent the <a href="/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration" title="Food and Drug Administration">Food and Drug Administration</a>'s approval of the abortion pill <a href="/wiki/Mifepristone" title="Mifepristone">mifepristone</a> without demonstrating that the drug's availability had caused them personal harm.<sup id="cite_ref-267" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-267"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>267<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Capital_punishment">Capital punishment</h3></div> <p>Also in February, Kavanaugh was part of the majority in decisions relating to the <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States" title="Capital punishment in the United States">death penalty</a>. On February 7, 2019, he was part of the majority in a 5–4 decision rejecting a Muslim prisoner's request to delay his execution in order to have an imam present.<sup id="cite_ref-268" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-268"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>268<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On February 19, 2019, Kavanaugh joined Roberts and the Court's four liberal justices in a 6–3 decision blocking the execution of a man with an "intellectual disability" in Texas.<sup id="cite_ref-269" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-269"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>269<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-270" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-270"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>270<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In January 2022, he voted with the majority in a 5–4 decision to allow an execution to proceed in Alabama.<sup id="cite_ref-271" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-271"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>271<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2023 Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion in <i><a href="/wiki/Reed_v._Goertz" title="Reed v. Goertz">Reed v. Goertz</a></i>, ruling that Texas death row inmate <a href="/wiki/Rodney_Reed" title="Rodney Reed">Rodney Reed</a> could seek DNA testing on evidence in his case despite the state's statute of limitations on such testing.<sup id="cite_ref-272" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-272"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>272<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="LGBT_rights">LGBT rights</h3></div> <p>On June 15, 2020, in <i><a href="/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County" title="Bostock v. Clayton County">Bostock v. Clayton County</a></i>, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that the workplace nondiscrimination protections in Title VII of the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964" title="Civil Rights Act of 1964">Civil Rights Act of 1964</a> should be interpreted as protecting people on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Kavanaugh wrote a dissent in which he argued that sexual orientation discrimination has always been understood as distinct from sex discrimination. He conceded that sexual orientation discrimination "may, as a very literal matter, entail making a distinction based on sex"; nonetheless, he said, "to fire one employee because she is a woman and another employee because he is gay implicates two distinct societal concerns, reveals two distinct biases, imposes two distinct harms, and falls within two distinct statutory prohibitions." He said that any change to the relevant law ought to be made by Congress, not by judges; and that "both the rule of law and democratic accountability badly suffer when a court adopts a hidden or obscure interpretation of the law, and not its ordinary meaning."<sup id="cite_ref-273" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-273"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>273<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh's dissent did not discuss gender identity or use the word "transgender", although transgender rights were at issue in the case. In a footnote, he wrote that his analysis "on the basis of sexual orientation would apply in much the same way to discrimination on the basis of gender identity."<sup id="cite_ref-274" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-274"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>274<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In October 2020, Kavanaugh agreed with the justices in an "apparently unanimous" decision to deny an appeal brought by <a href="/wiki/Kim_Davis" title="Kim Davis">Kim Davis</a>, a county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.<sup id="cite_ref-275" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-275"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>275<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2021, Kavanaugh joined the majority opinion in <i><a href="/wiki/Fulton_v._City_of_Philadelphia" title="Fulton v. City of Philadelphia">Fulton v. City of Philadelphia</a></i>, ruling in favor of a <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> adoption and social service agency that had been denied funding by the City of Philadelphia because it does not place children for adoption with same-sex couples; the ruling also declined to overturn <i><a href="/wiki/Employment_Division_v._Smith" title="Employment Division v. Smith">Employment Division v. Smith</a></i>, "an important precedent limiting First Amendment protections for religious practices".<sup id="cite_ref-276" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-276"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>276<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The same month, Kavanaugh was among the six justices who rejected the appeal of a Washington State florist, whom lower courts had ruled violated non-discrimination laws by refusing to sell floral arrangements to a same-sex couple based on her religious beliefs against same-sex marriage, leaving the lower courts' judgments in place.<sup id="cite_ref-277" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-277"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>277<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-278" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-278"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>278<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-279" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-279"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>279<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November 2021, Kavanaugh voted with the majority of justices in a 6–3 decision to decline to hear an appeal from <a href="/wiki/Mercy_San_Juan_Medical_Center" title="Mercy San Juan Medical Center">Mercy San Juan Medical Center</a>, a hospital affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, which had sought to deny a <a href="/wiki/Hysterectomy" title="Hysterectomy">hysterectomy</a> to a transgender patient on religious grounds.<sup id="cite_ref-280" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-280"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>280<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissented; because four votes are required to hear an appeal, the vote to reject the appeal left in place a lower court ruling in the patient's favor.<sup id="cite_ref-281" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-281"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>281<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-282" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-282"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>282<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="President_Trump's_taxes"><span id="President_Trump.27s_taxes"></span>President Trump's taxes</h3></div> <p>In July 2020, in <i><a href="/wiki/Trump_v._Vance" title="Trump v. Vance">Trump v. Vance</a></i>, the Supreme Court ruled in two 7–2 decisions that the <a href="/wiki/Manhattan_District_Attorney" class="mw-redirect" title="Manhattan District Attorney">Manhattan district attorney</a> could access Trump's tax records, but that the issue of whether Congress could access the same records needed to be processed through the lower courts. Kavanaugh joined Roberts, Gorsuch, and the court's four Democratic appointees in the majority;<sup id="cite_ref-283" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-283"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>283<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Justices Thomas and Alito dissented.<sup id="cite_ref-284" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-284"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>284<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The rulings mean that the Manhattan DA will have access to the records while Congress does not, pending the outcome of the case in lower courts.<sup id="cite_ref-285" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-285"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>285<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Voting_rights">Voting rights</h3></div> <p>Eight days before the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election">2020 presidential election</a> Kavanaugh concurred that absentee votes properly cast in Wisconsin but received after November 3 must be discarded, joining the Court's conservatives in a ruling that requires deferral to state officials on elections.<sup id="cite_ref-286" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-286"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>286<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-287" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-287"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>287<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On October 19, Kavanaugh voted to grant a request for a stay that would have prevented ballots sent before Election Day but delivered within three days after it from being counted. The Court was split 4–4, so the ruling by the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Pennsylvania" title="Supreme Court of Pennsylvania">Supreme Court of Pennsylvania</a> requiring all votes to be counted stood, but the case may be reheard.<sup id="cite_ref-288" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-288"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>288<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh sided with Roberts and three liberal justices in a 5–3 majority to allow voting extension in North Carolina.<sup id="cite_ref-289" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-289"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>289<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Compensation_of_college_athletes">Compensation of college athletes</h3></div> <p>In his concurrence in <i><a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association_v._Alston" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston">National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston</a></i> in June 2021, in which the Court ruled unanimously that college sports were not exempt from <a href="/wiki/Antitrust" class="mw-redirect" title="Antitrust">antitrust</a> law, Kavanaugh called the NCAA "a massive money-raising enterprise on the backs of student athletes who are not fairly compensated." No one else, he said, could "not ... pay workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate." He said there were "serious questions" about other rules on compensation.<sup id="cite_ref-290" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-290"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>290<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Assassination_plot">Assassination plot</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh_assassination_plot" title="Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot">Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot</a></div> <p>In the early morning of June 8, 2022, Nicholas John Roske traveled from California to Kavanaugh's home in Maryland with plans to break into the home, murder Kavanaugh, and commit suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-2022NYT_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2022NYT-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-291" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-291"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>291<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After seeing two <a href="/wiki/U.S._Marshal" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Marshal">U.S. marshals</a> outside Kavanaugh's home, Roske turned himself in by calling <a href="/wiki/9-1-1" class="mw-redirect" title="9-1-1">9-1-1</a>. He said his attempt to murder Kavanaugh stemmed from dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court's leaked draft opinion in <i><a href="/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_Health_Organization" title="Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#39;s Health Organization">Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization</a></i>, as well as the potential for the Court to loosen gun control laws under the <a href="/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Second Amendment to the United States Constitution">Second Amendment</a>. Roske was armed with a pistol, two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, a screwdriver, a nail punch, a crowbar, a pistol light, duct tape, and other items. He has been charged with attempted murder.<sup id="cite_ref-2022NYT_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2022NYT-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Teaching_and_scholarship">Teaching and scholarship</h2></div> <p>Kavanaugh taught full-term courses on separation of powers at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School">Harvard Law School</a> from 2008 to 2015, on the Supreme Court at Harvard Law School between 2014 and 2018, on National Security and Foreign Relations Law at <a href="/wiki/Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School">Yale Law School</a> in 2011, and on Constitutional Interpretation at Georgetown University Law Center in 2007. He was named the <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Williston" title="Samuel Williston">Samuel Williston</a> Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-292" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-292"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>292<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2008, Kavanaugh was hired as a visiting professor by <a href="/wiki/Elena_Kagan" title="Elena Kagan">Elena Kagan</a>, then the dean of Harvard Law School. According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Boston_Globe" title="The Boston Globe">The Boston Globe</a></i>, he was generous with his time and accessible, and quickly became a student favorite. He often dined in Cambridge with students and offered references and career advice.<sup id="cite_ref-293" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-293"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>293<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-294" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-294"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>294<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh received high evaluations from his students, including <a href="/wiki/JD_Vance" title="JD Vance">JD Vance</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-295" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-295"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>295<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After the allegations of sexual misconduct against him, Harvard Law School graduates<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too vague attribution or weasel words. (June 2022)">which?</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> petitioned Harvard to rescind Kavanaugh's position as a lecturer.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> Shortly thereafter, Kavanaugh voluntarily withdrew from teaching at Harvard for the 2019 winter semester.<sup id="cite_ref-296" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-296"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>296<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the summer of 2019, he joined the faculty of George Mason University's <a href="/wiki/Antonin_Scalia_Law_School" title="Antonin Scalia Law School">Antonin Scalia Law School</a> as a visiting professor, co-teaching a summer course in <a href="/wiki/Runnymede" title="Runnymede">Runnymede</a>, England, on the origins and creation of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution">United States Constitution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-297" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-297"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>297<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009, Kavanaugh wrote an article for the <i><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Law_Review" title="Minnesota Law Review">Minnesota Law Review</a></i> in which he argued that Congress should exempt U.S. presidents from civil lawsuits while in office<sup id="cite_ref-mlr_298-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mlr-298"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>298<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> because, among other things, such lawsuits could be "time-consuming and distracting" for the president and would thus "ill serve the public interest, especially in times of financial or national security crisis".<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_2018-06-29_299-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo_2018-06-29-299"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>299<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kavanaugh argued that if a president "does something dastardly", they may be impeached by the House of Representatives, convicted by the Senate, and criminally prosecuted after leaving office.<sup id="cite_ref-mlr_298-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mlr-298"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>298<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He asserted that the U.S. would have been better off if President Clinton could have "focused on Osama bin Laden without being distracted by the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and its criminal investigation offshoots".<sup id="cite_ref-mlr_298-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mlr-298"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>298<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This article garnered attention in 2018 when Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court by Trump, whose 2016 presidential campaign was at the time the subject of a federal probe by <a href="/wiki/Investigation_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="Investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections">Special Counsel Robert Mueller</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_2018-06-29_299-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo_2018-06-29-299"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>299<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>When reviewing a book on <a href="/wiki/Statutory_interpretation" title="Statutory interpretation">statutory interpretation</a> by Second Circuit chief judge <a href="/wiki/Robert_Katzmann" title="Robert Katzmann">Robert Katzmann</a>, Kavanaugh observed that judges often cannot agree on a statute if its text is ambiguous.<sup id="cite_ref-katzmannreview_300-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-katzmannreview-300"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>300<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> To remedy this, he encouraged judges to first seek the "best reading" of the statute, through "interpreting the words of the statute" as well as the context of the statute as a whole, and only then apply other interpretive techniques that may justify an interpretation that differs from the "best meaning", such as <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_avoidance" title="Constitutional avoidance">constitutional avoidance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Legislative_history" title="Legislative history">legislative history</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Chevron_deference" class="mw-redirect" title="Chevron deference">Chevron deference</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-katzmannreview_300-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-katzmannreview-300"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>300<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Kavanaugh_family_with_George_W._Bush.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/The_Kavanaugh_family_with_George_W._Bush.jpg/220px-The_Kavanaugh_family_with_George_W._Bush.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/The_Kavanaugh_family_with_George_W._Bush.jpg/330px-The_Kavanaugh_family_with_George_W._Bush.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/The_Kavanaugh_family_with_George_W._Bush.jpg/440px-The_Kavanaugh_family_with_George_W._Bush.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5340" data-file-height="3564" /></a><figcaption>The Kavanaugh family with President Bush</figcaption></figure> <p>Kavanaugh and <a href="/wiki/Ashley_Estes_Kavanaugh" title="Ashley Estes Kavanaugh">Ashley Estes</a>, the personal secretary to former President George W. Bush,<sup id="cite_ref-USA_Today_301-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USA_Today-301"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>301<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> married in 2004; the couple have two daughters.<sup id="cite_ref-302" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-302"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>302<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They live in <a href="/wiki/Chevy_Chase_Section_Five,_Maryland" title="Chevy Chase Section Five, Maryland">Chevy Chase Section Five, Maryland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT15july18_40-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT15july18-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kavanaugh ran the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Marathon" title="Boston Marathon">Boston Marathon</a> in 2010 and 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-303" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-303"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>303<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His bibs bore non-qualifying numbers, assigned for a charity or a "guest" rather than an age-based time qualifier.<sup id="cite_ref-304" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-304"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>304<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He also has completed many shorter races, from 5&#160;km to 10 miles.<sup id="cite_ref-NR_305-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NR-305"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>305<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-306" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-306"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>306<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kavanaugh is a <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Roman Catholic</a><sup id="cite_ref-USA_Today_301-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USA_Today-301"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>301<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and serves as a regular <a href="/wiki/Reader_(liturgy)" title="Reader (liturgy)">lector</a> at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Washington, D.C. He has helped serve meals to the homeless as part of church programs, and has tutored at the Washington Jesuit Academy, a Catholic private school in the District of Columbia.<sup id="cite_ref-USA_Today_301-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USA_Today-301"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>301<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-307" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-307"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>307<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>At his May 2006 confirmation hearing to the District of Columbia Circuit, he stated that he was a registered Republican.<sup id="cite_ref-Republican_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Republican-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2018, Kavanaugh's reported salary was $220,600 as a federal judge and $27,000 as a lecturer at Harvard Law School.<sup id="cite_ref-TimeMoney_308-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TimeMoney-308"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>308<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2022, Kavanaugh's home was the site of <a href="/wiki/2022_abortion_rights_protests_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 abortion rights protests in the United States">protests</a> following the leak of a draft majority opinion for the Supreme Court case <i><a href="/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_Health_Organization" title="Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#39;s Health Organization">Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-309" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-309"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>309<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-310" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-310"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>310<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_publications">Selected publications</h2></div> <dl><dt>Articles and book reviews</dt></dl> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh1989" class="citation journal cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7241&amp;context=ylj">"Note: Defense Presence and Participation: A Procedural Minimum for Batson v. Kentucky Hearings"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Yale_Law_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Yale Law Journal">Yale Law Journal</a></i>. <b>99</b>: <span class="nowrap">187–</span>207. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F796727">10.2307/796727</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/796727">796727</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Yale+Law+Journal&amp;rft.atitle=Note%3A+Defense+Presence+and+Participation%3A+A+Procedural+Minimum+for+Batson+v.+Kentucky+Hearings&amp;rft.volume=99&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E187-%3C%2Fspan%3E207&amp;rft.date=1989&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F796727&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F796727%23id-name%3DJSTOR&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.law.yale.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D7241%26context%3Dylj&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span><sup id="cite_ref-311" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-311"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>311<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh1997–1998" class="citation journal cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (1997–1998). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/BrettMKavanaughThePreside.pdf">"The President and the Independent Counsel"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Georgetown_Law_Journal" title="The Georgetown Law Journal">The Georgetown Law Journal</a></i>. <b>86</b>: <span class="nowrap">2133–</span>2178.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Georgetown+Law+Journal&amp;rft.atitle=The+President+and+the+Independent+Counsel&amp;rft.volume=86&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E2133-%3C%2Fspan%3E2178&amp;rft.date=1997%2F1998&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.justsecurity.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F06%2FBrettMKavanaughThePreside.pdf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh2009" class="citation journal cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Kavanaugh_MLR.pdf">"Separation of Powers During the Forty-Fourth Presidency and Beyond"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Law_Review" title="Minnesota Law Review">Minnesota Law Review</a></i>. <b>93</b>: <span class="nowrap">1454–</span>1484.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Minnesota+Law+Review&amp;rft.atitle=Separation+of+Powers+During+the+Forty-Fourth+Presidency+and+Beyond&amp;rft.volume=93&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E1454-%3C%2Fspan%3E1484&amp;rft.date=2009&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.minnesotalawreview.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F01%2FKavanaugh_MLR.pdf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span> A video of the lecture is available at the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.startribune.com/watch-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-s-2008-speech-at-university-of-minnesota/488057311"><i>Star Tribune</i></a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh2014" class="citation journal cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4554&amp;context=ndlr">"Our Anchor for 225 Years and Counting: The Enduring Significance of the Precise Text of the Constitution"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Notre_Dame_Law_Review" title="Notre Dame Law Review">Notre Dame Law Review</a></i>. <b>89</b>: <span class="nowrap">1907–</span>1928.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Notre+Dame+Law+Review&amp;rft.atitle=Our+Anchor+for+225+Years+and+Counting%3A+The+Enduring+Significance+of+the+Precise+Text+of+the+Constitution&amp;rft.volume=89&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E1907-%3C%2Fspan%3E1928&amp;rft.date=2014&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fscholarship.law.nd.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D4554%26context%3Dndlr&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh2016" class="citation journal cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2118-2163-Online.pdf">"Fixing Statutory Interpretation. Book Review: Judging Statutes. By Robert A. Katzmann. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. 2014. Pp. xi, 171. $24.95"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_Review" title="Harvard Law Review">Harvard Law Review</a></i>. <b>129</b>: <span class="nowrap">2118–</span>2163. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44072361">44072361</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Harvard+Law+Review&amp;rft.atitle=Fixing+Statutory+Interpretation.+Book+Review%3A+Judging+Statutes.+By+Robert+A.+Katzmann.+New+York%2C+N.Y.%3A+Oxford+University+Press.+2014.+Pp.+xi%2C+171.+%2424.95.&amp;rft.volume=129&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E2118-%3C%2Fspan%3E2163&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F44072361%23id-name%3DJSTOR&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fharvardlawreview.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F06%2F2118-2163-Online.pdf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh2016" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Kavanaugh, Brett (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://law.marquette.edu/assets/marquette-lawyers/pdf/marquette-lawyer/2016-fall/2016-fall-p08.pdf">"One Government, Three Branches, Five Controversies: Separation of Powers Under Presidents Bush and Obama"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Marquette Lawyer</i>. 2016 (Fall): <span class="nowrap">9–</span>19.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Marquette+Lawyer&amp;rft.atitle=One+Government%2C+Three+Branches%2C+Five+Controversies%3A+Separation+of+Powers+Under+Presidents+Bush+and+Obama&amp;rft.volume=2016+%28Fall%29&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E9-%3C%2Fspan%3E19&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Flaw.marquette.edu%2Fassets%2Fmarquette-lawyers%2Fpdf%2Fmarquette-lawyer%2F2016-fall%2F2016-fall-p08.pdf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh2017" class="citation web cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (November 29, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/congress-and-president-wartime">"Congress and the President in Wartime: A review of David Barron's Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2016)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Lawfare_(website)" title="Lawfare (website)">Lawfare</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201121113153/https://www.lawfaremedia.org/congress-and-president-wartime">Archived</a> from the original on November 21, 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 21,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Lawfare&amp;rft.atitle=Congress+and+the+President+in+Wartime%3A+A+review+of+David+Barron%27s+Waging+War%3A+The+Clash+Between+Presidents+and+Congress%2C+1776+to+ISIS+%28Simon+%26+Schuster%2C+2016%29.&amp;rft.date=2017-11-29&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lawfaremedia.org%2Fcongress-and-president-wartime&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <dl><dt>Op-eds</dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh1999" class="citation news cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (February 26, 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1999/02/26/first-let-congress-do-its-job/10b7fdfd-5a53-44fe-bed5-ac9dfc4ef048/">"First Let Congress Do Its Job"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>. p.&#160;A27<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 21,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post&amp;rft.atitle=First+Let+Congress+Do+Its+Job&amp;rft.pages=A27&amp;rft.date=1999-02-26&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Farchive%2Fopinions%2F1999%2F02%2F26%2Ffirst-let-congress-do-its-job%2F10b7fdfd-5a53-44fe-bed5-ac9dfc4ef048%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh1999" class="citation news cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (July 1, 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1999/07/01/we-all-supported-kenneth-starr/baa7d6c1-be3d-4217-baee-8a025e87dc34/">"We All Supported Kenneth Starr"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>. p.&#160;A28. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201121093625/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1999/07/01/we-all-supported-kenneth-starr/baa7d6c1-be3d-4217-baee-8a025e87dc34/">Archived</a> from the original on November 21, 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 21,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post&amp;rft.atitle=We+All+Supported+Kenneth+Starr&amp;rft.pages=A28&amp;rft.date=1999-07-01&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Farchive%2Fopinions%2F1999%2F07%2F01%2Fwe-all-supported-kenneth-starr%2Fbaa7d6c1-be3d-4217-baee-8a025e87dc34%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaughBittmanWisenberg1999" class="citation news cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett; Bittman, Robert J.; <a href="/wiki/Solomon_L._Wisenberg" title="Solomon L. Wisenberg">Wisenberg, Solomon L.</a> (November 15, 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/15/023r-111599-idx.html">"To Us, Starr Is an American Hero"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>. p.&#160;A23. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201121111742/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/15/023r-111599-idx.html">Archived</a> from the original on November 21, 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 21,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post&amp;rft.atitle=To+Us%2C+Starr+Is+an+American+Hero&amp;rft.pages=A23&amp;rft.date=1999-11-15&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft.au=Bittman%2C+Robert+J.&amp;rft.au=Wisenberg%2C+Solomon+L.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-srv%2FWPcap%2F1999-11%2F15%2F023r-111599-idx.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh1999" class="citation news cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (August 1, 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/01/books/l-starr-report-739197.html">"Letter to the Editor: Starr Report"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. p.&#160;2 (Section 7). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201121094726/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/01/books/l-starr-report-739197.html">Archived</a> from the original on November 21, 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 21,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=Letter+to+the+Editor%3A+Starr+Report&amp;rft.pages=2+%28Section+7%29&amp;rft.date=1999-08-01&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1999%2F08%2F01%2Fbooks%2Fl-starr-report-739197.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaughBittman1999" class="citation news cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett; Bittman, Robert J. (August 31, 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1999/08/31/indictment-of-an-ex-president/d35ee73b-5d51-4c40-8e24-0636183da235/">"Indictment of an Ex-President?"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>. p.&#160;A12. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201106055244/https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Brett-Kavanaugh-Indictment-of-an-Ex-President-Washington-Post-1999.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on November 6, 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 21,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post&amp;rft.atitle=Indictment+of+an+Ex-President%3F&amp;rft.pages=A12&amp;rft.date=1999-08-31&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft.au=Bittman%2C+Robert+J.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Farchive%2Fopinions%2F1999%2F08%2F31%2Findictment-of-an-ex-president%2Fd35ee73b-5d51-4c40-8e24-0636183da235%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh1999" class="citation news cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (September 27, 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB938365458335869648">"Are Hawaiians Indians? The Justice Department Thinks So"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i>. p.&#160;A35<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 21,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Wall+Street+Journal&amp;rft.atitle=Are+Hawaiians+Indians%3F+The+Justice+Department+Thinks+So&amp;rft.pages=A35&amp;rft.date=1999-09-27&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2FSB938365458335869648&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <dl><dt>Speeches and symposia</dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaughTylerEasterbrookLettow2012" class="citation journal cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett; Tyler, Amanda L.; <a href="/wiki/Frank_H._Easterbrook" class="mw-redirect" title="Frank H. Easterbrook">Easterbrook, Frank H.</a>; <a href="/wiki/Charles_F._Lettow" title="Charles F. Lettow">Lettow, Charles F.</a>; <a href="/wiki/Reena_Raggi" title="Reena Raggi">Raggi, Reena</a>; <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Sutton" title="Jeffrey Sutton">Sutton, Jeffrey S.</a>; <a href="/wiki/Diane_Wood" title="Diane Wood">Wood, Diane P.</a> (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/80-Geo.-Wash.-L.-Rev.-1889.pdf">"A Dialogue with Federal Judges on the Role of History in Interpretation"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_George_Washington_International_Law_Review" title="The George Washington International Law Review">The George Washington International Law Review</a></i>. <b>80</b>: <span class="nowrap">1889–</span>1922.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+George+Washington+International+Law+Review&amp;rft.atitle=A+Dialogue+with+Federal+Judges+on+the+Role+of+History+in+Interpretation&amp;rft.volume=80&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E1889-%3C%2Fspan%3E1922&amp;rft.date=2012&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft.au=Tyler%2C+Amanda+L.&amp;rft.au=Easterbrook%2C+Frank+H.&amp;rft.au=Lettow%2C+Charles+F.&amp;rft.au=Raggi%2C+Reena&amp;rft.au=Sutton%2C+Jeffrey+S.&amp;rft.au=Wood%2C+Diane+P.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gwlr.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F04%2F80-Geo.-Wash.-L.-Rev.-1889.pdf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh2014" class="citation journal cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4554&amp;context=ndlr">"The Courts and the Administrative State (2013 Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture)"</a>. <i>Case Western Reserve Law Review</i>. <b>64</b> (3): <span class="nowrap">711–</span>731.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Case+Western+Reserve+Law+Review&amp;rft.atitle=The+Courts+and+the+Administrative+State+%282013+Sumner+Canary+Memorial+Lecture%29&amp;rft.volume=64&amp;rft.issue=3&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E711-%3C%2Fspan%3E731&amp;rft.date=2014&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fscholarship.law.nd.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D4554%26context%3Dndlr&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span> A video of the lecture is available on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJRwdcRE7fg">YouTube</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh2017" class="citation journal cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4733&amp;context=ndlr">"Keynote Address: Two Challenges for the Judge as Umpire: Statutory Ambiguity and Constitutional Exceptions"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Notre_Dame_Law_Review" title="Notre Dame Law Review">Notre Dame Law Review</a></i>. <b>92</b>: <span class="nowrap">1907–</span>1920.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Notre+Dame+Law+Review&amp;rft.atitle=Keynote+Address%3A+Two+Challenges+for+the+Judge+as+Umpire%3A+Statutory+Ambiguity+and+Constitutional+Exceptions&amp;rft.volume=92&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E1907-%3C%2Fspan%3E1920&amp;rft.date=2017&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fscholarship.law.nd.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D4733%26context%3Dndlr&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh2016" class="citation journal cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholarship.law.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3383&amp;context=lawreview">"The Judge as Umpire: Ten Principles"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Catholic_University_Law_Review" title="Catholic University Law Review">Catholic University Law Review</a></i>. <b>65</b>: <span class="nowrap">683–</span>692.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Catholic+University+Law+Review&amp;rft.atitle=The+Judge+as+Umpire%3A+Ten+Principles&amp;rft.volume=65&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E683-%3C%2Fspan%3E692&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fscholarship.law.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D3383%26context%3Dlawreview&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span> A video of the lecture is available on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXKX_whwVzs">YouTube</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh2017" class="citation book cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett (2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201112011155/https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/From-the-Bench.pdf"><i>From the Bench: The Constitutional Statesmanship of Chief Justice William Rehnquist (2017 Walter Berns Constitution Day Lecture)</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute">American Enterprise Institute</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/From-the-Bench.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on November 12, 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=From+the+Bench%3A+The+Constitutional+Statesmanship+of+Chief+Justice+William+Rehnquist+%282017+Walter+Berns+Constitution+Day+Lecture%29&amp;rft.pub=American+Enterprise+Institute&amp;rft.date=2017&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aei.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F12%2FFrom-the-Bench.pdf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span> A video of the lecture is available on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_8Hv4Mes_c">YouTube</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dt>Books</dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKavanaugh2016" class="citation book cs1">Kavanaugh, Brett M. (2016). Garner, Bryan A. (ed.). <i>The Law of Judicial Precedent</i>. St. Paul: Thomson West. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-314-63420-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-314-63420-7"><bdi>978-0-314-63420-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Law+of+Judicial+Precedent&amp;rft.place=St.+Paul&amp;rft.pub=Thomson+West&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-314-63420-7&amp;rft.aulast=Kavanaugh&amp;rft.aufirst=Brett+M.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span> Brett Kavanaugh is one of thirteen co-authors (including <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch" title="Neil Gorsuch">Neil Gorsuch</a>) of the treatise. The chapters are not written separately by the authors.<sup id="cite_ref-312" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-312"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>312<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump_Supreme_Court_candidates" title="Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates">Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump_judicial_appointment_controversies" title="Donald Trump judicial appointment controversies">Donald Trump judicial appointment controversies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush_Supreme_Court_candidates" title="George W. Bush Supreme Court candidates">George W. Bush Supreme Court candidates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_law_clerks_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States_(Seat_1)" title="List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 1)">List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 1)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States">List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Republican-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Republican_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Republican_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=eOg3AAAAIAAJ&amp;q=Brett+Kavanaugh+%22registered+republican%22&amp;pg=PA33"><i>Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be Circuit Judge for The District of Columbia Circuit</i></a>. 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Cir.&#32;2015).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-97"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-97">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCowley2016" class="citation news cs1">Cowley, Stacy (October 12, 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/business/dealbook/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-court-ruling-unconstitutional.html">"Court Upholds Consumer Agency, Minus Its Leader's Job Security"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. p.&#160;B2. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210214231346/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/business/dealbook/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-court-ruling-unconstitutional.html">Archived</a> from the original on February 14, 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Cir.&#32;2018) (en banc).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-100"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-100">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWeiss2018" class="citation news cs1">Weiss, Debra Cassens (January 31, 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/full_dc_circuit_upholds_structure_of_consumer_financial_protection_bureau">"Full DC Circuit upholds structure of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/ABA_Journal" title="ABA Journal">ABA Journal</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 6,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=ABA+Journal&amp;rft.atitle=Full+DC+Circuit+upholds+structure+of+Consumer+Financial+Protection+Bureau&amp;rft.date=2018-01-31&amp;rft.aulast=Weiss&amp;rft.aufirst=Debra+Cassens&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abajournal.com%2Fnews%2Farticle%2Ffull_dc_circuit_upholds_structure_of_consumer_financial_protection_bureau&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-101"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-101">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1176897979"><cite id="CITEREFNote2013">Note, <span class="bluebook-title bluebook-lock-none" title=""><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/vol127_in_re_aiken_county.pdf">Recent Case: D.C. Circuit Compels Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Follow Statutory Mandate</a></span>, 127 <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_Review" title="Harvard Law Review">Harvard Law Review</a> 1033&#32;(2013).</cite></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-102"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-102">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite><i>In re Aiken County</i></cite>,&#32;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=4044946221491972933">725&#32;F.3d&#32;255</a>&#32;(D.C. Cir.&#32;2013).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-103"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-103">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchaffner2016" class="citation book cs1">Schaffner, Joan E. (2016). 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EPA</i></cite>,&#32;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=17833444888230748743">696&#32;F.3d&#32;7</a>&#32;(D.C. Cir.&#32;2012).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-107"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-107">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1176897979"><cite id="CITEREFNote2014">Note, <span class="bluebook-title bluebook-lock-none" title=""><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cdn.harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/UARG_v_EPA.pdf">The Supreme Court, 2013 Term — Leading Cases</a></span>, 128 <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_Review" title="Harvard Law Review">Harvard Law Review</a> 361&#32;(2014).</cite></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-108"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-108">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite><i>Coal. for Responsible Regulation, Inc. v. 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Cir.&#32;December 20, 2012).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-109"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-109">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1176897979"><cite id="CITEREFNote2015">Note, <span class="bluebook-title bluebook-lock-none" title=""><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cdn.harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/311-320-Online.pdf">The Supreme Court, 2014 Term — Leading Cases</a></span>, 129 <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_Review" title="Harvard Law Review">Harvard Law Review</a> 311&#32;(2015).</cite></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-110"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-110">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite><i>White Stallion Energy Ctr., LLC v. EPA</i></cite>,&#32;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12809509887889779783">748&#32;F.3d&#32;1222</a>&#32;(D.C. Cir.&#32;2014) (per curiam).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-111"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-111">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1176897979"><cite id="CITEREFNote2008">Note, <span class="bluebook-title bluebook-lock-none" title=""><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/doe_v_exxon_mobil.pdf">Recent Case: D.C. Circuit Declines To Overturn Lower Court's Finding of Justiciablity in Tort Suit Brought by Indonesian Villagers</a></span>, 121 <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_Review" title="Harvard Law Review">Harvard Law Review</a> 898&#32;(2008).</cite></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-112"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-112">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite><i><a href="/wiki/Doe_v._Exxon_Mobil_Corp." title="Doe v. Exxon Mobil Corp.">Doe v. Exxon Mobil Corp.</a></i></cite>,&#32;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2898355848533048038">473&#32;F.3d&#32;345</a>&#32;(D.C. Cir.&#32;2007).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-113"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-113">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1176897979"><cite id="CITEREFNote2011">Note, <span class="bluebook-title bluebook-lock-none" title=""><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/vol125_doe_VIII_v_exxon.pdf">Recent Case: D.C. Circuit Holds Corporations Not Immune from ATS Claims</a></span>, 125 <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_Review" title="Harvard Law Review">Harvard Law Review</a> 674&#32;(2011).</cite></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-114"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-114">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite><i>Doe VIII v. Exxon Mobil Corp.</i></cite>,&#32;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5749540025048255283">654&#32;F.3d&#32;11</a>&#32;(D.C. Cir.&#32;2011).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-115"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-115">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite><i>Republican Nat. Committee v. Federal Election Comm.</i></cite>,&#32;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1640495782400720370">698&#32;F.Supp.2d&#32;150</a>&#32;(D.D.C.&#32;2010).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-116"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-116">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite><i>Bluman v. 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Federal Election Commission"</a>. <a href="/wiki/SCOTUSblog" title="SCOTUSblog">SCOTUSblog</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210214231341/https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/07/kavanaugh-and-campaign-finance-republican-national-committee-v-federal-election-commission/">Archived</a> from the original on February 14, 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 10,</span> 2021</span>. <q>In a statement, two of those male classmates who Ramirez alleged were involved in the incident, the wife of a third male student she said was involved, and one other classmate, Dan Murphy, disputed Ramirez's account of events "We were the people closest to Brett Kavanaugh during his first year at Yale... In addition, some of us knew Debbie long after Yale, and she never described this incident until Brett's Supreme Court nomination was pending. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 29,</span> 2018</span>. <q>Ms. Ramirez herself told the press and friends that, initially, she was not absolutely certain it was Kavanaugh who assaulted her, but after corresponding with friends who had secondhand knowledge of the incident, and taking time to refresh her recollection, stated that she was certain Kavanaugh was her assailant.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=Christine+Blasey+Ford+Reaches+Deal+to+Testify+at+Kavanaugh+Hearing&amp;rft.date=2018-09-23&amp;rft.aulast=Stolberg&amp;rft.aufirst=Sheryl&amp;rft.au=Fandos%2C+Nicholas&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F09%2F23%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fbrett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-testify.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABrett+Kavanaugh" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-WaPoRamirez-219"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-WaPoRamirez_219-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBlake" class="citation news cs1">Blake, Aaron. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/24/breaking-down-new-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-misconduct-allegation/">"Analysis | Breaking down the new Brett Kavanaugh sexual misconduct allegation"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210214231453/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/24/breaking-down-new-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-misconduct-allegation/">Archived</a> from the original on February 14, 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Kavanaugh to be Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit: Hearing"</a>, 108th Cong., 2nd Sess. April 27, 2004. Washington: U.S. GPO, 2006. iii, 159 p.; 24&#160;cm. Serial No. J-108-69. S.Hrg. 108–878</li> <li>———, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.congress.gov/109/chrg/shrg27916/CHRG-109shrg27916.pdf">"Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit: Hearing"</a>, 109th Cong., 2nd Sess. May 9, 2006. Washington: U.S. GPO, 2006. iii, 103 p.; 24&#160;cm. Serial No. J-109-73. S.Hrg. 109–435</li> <li>———, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Brett%20M.%20Kavanaugh%20SJQ%20(PUBLIC).pdf">"Questionnaire for the Nominee to the Supreme Court of Brett Michael Kavanaugh"</a>, 115th Cong., 2nd Sess. July 2018</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congressional_Research_Service" title="Congressional Research Service">Congressional Research Service</a> Report R45269, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45269.pdf">"Judicial Opinions of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh"</a>, Coordinated by Michael John Garcia (2018)</li> <li>Congressional Research Service Report R45293, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45293.pdf">"Judge Brett M. 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Taney">Roger B. Taney</a> (<a href="/wiki/Taney_Court" title="Taney Court">1836–1864</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Taney_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Taney Court">cases</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salmon_P._Chase" title="Salmon P. Chase">Salmon P. Chase</a> (<a href="/wiki/Chase_Court" title="Chase Court">1864–1873</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Chase_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Chase Court">cases</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morrison_Waite" title="Morrison Waite">Morrison Waite</a> (<a href="/wiki/Waite_Court" title="Waite Court">1874–1888</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Waite_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Waite Court">cases</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melville_Fuller" title="Melville Fuller">Melville Fuller</a> (<a href="/wiki/Fuller_Court" title="Fuller Court">1888–1910</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Fuller_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Fuller Court">cases</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Douglass_White" title="Edward Douglass White">Edward Douglass White</a> (<a href="/wiki/White_Court_(justices)" title="White Court (justices)">1910–1921</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_White_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the White Court">cases</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" title="William Howard Taft">William Howard Taft</a> (<a href="/wiki/Taft_Court" title="Taft Court">1921–1930</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Taft_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Taft Court">cases</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes" title="Charles Evans Hughes">Charles Evans Hughes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hughes_Court" title="Hughes Court">1930–1941</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Hughes_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Hughes Court">cases</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harlan_F._Stone" title="Harlan F. Stone">Harlan F. Stone</a> (<a href="/wiki/Stone_Court" title="Stone Court">1941–1946</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Stone_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Stone Court">cases</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_M._Vinson" title="Fred M. Vinson">Fred M. Vinson</a> (<a href="/wiki/Vinson_Court" title="Vinson Court">1946–1953</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Vinson_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Vinson Court">cases</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Warren" title="Earl Warren">Earl Warren</a> (<a href="/wiki/Warren_Court" title="Warren Court">1953–1969</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Warren_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Warren Court">cases</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_E._Burger" title="Warren E. Burger">Warren E. Burger</a> (<a href="/wiki/Burger_Court" title="Burger Court">1969–1986</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Burger_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Burger Court">cases</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Rehnquist" title="William Rehnquist">William Rehnquist</a> (<a href="/wiki/Rehnquist_Court" title="Rehnquist Court">1986–2005</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Rehnquist_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court">cases</a></i>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Roberts" title="John Roberts">John Roberts</a> (<a href="/wiki/Roberts_Court" title="Roberts Court">2005–present</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Roberts_Court" title="List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Roberts Court">cases</a></i>)</li></ol> </div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg/80px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg/120px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg/160px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd flatlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible uncollapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><div id="Associate_justices189" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Associate_Justice_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States">Associate justices</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;text-align:left;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 16em;"> <ol><li><span style="background-color: #eeeeff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/John_Rutledge" title="John Rutledge">J. Rutledge</a>* (1790–1791)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Cushing" title="William Cushing">Cushing</a> (1790–1810)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Wilson_(Founding_Father)" title="James Wilson (Founding Father)">Wilson</a> (1789–1798)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Blair_Jr." title="John Blair Jr.">Blair</a> (1790–1795)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Iredell" title="James Iredell">Iredell</a> (1790–1799)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Johnson_(judge)" title="Thomas Johnson (judge)">T. Johnson</a> (1792–1793)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Paterson_(judge)" title="William Paterson (judge)">Paterson</a> (1793–1806)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Chase" title="Samuel Chase">S. Chase</a> (1796–1811)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bushrod_Washington" title="Bushrod Washington">Washington</a> (1798–1829)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Moore" title="Alfred Moore">Moore</a> (1800–1804)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Johnson_(judge)" title="William Johnson (judge)">W. Johnson</a> (1804–1834)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Brockholst_Livingston" title="Henry Brockholst Livingston">Livingston</a> (1807–1823)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Todd" title="Thomas Todd">Todd</a> (1807–1826)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Duvall" title="Gabriel Duvall">Duvall</a> (1811–1835)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Story" title="Joseph Story">Story</a> (1812–1845)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smith_Thompson" title="Smith Thompson">Thompson</a> (1823–1843)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Trimble" title="Robert Trimble">Trimble</a> (1826–1828)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McLean" title="John McLean">McLean</a> (1829–1861)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Baldwin_(judge)" title="Henry Baldwin (judge)">Baldwin</a> (1830–1844)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Moore_Wayne" class="mw-redirect" title="James Moore Wayne">Wayne</a> (1835–1867)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_P._Barbour" title="Philip P. Barbour">Barbour</a> (1836–1841)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Catron" title="John Catron">Catron</a> (1837–1865)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McKinley" title="John McKinley">McKinley</a> (1838–1852)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_V._Daniel" title="Peter V. Daniel">Daniel</a> (1842–1860)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Nelson" title="Samuel Nelson">Nelson</a> (1845–1872)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levi_Woodbury" title="Levi Woodbury">Woodbury</a> (1845–1851)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Cooper_Grier" title="Robert Cooper Grier">Grier</a> (1846–1870)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Robbins_Curtis" title="Benjamin Robbins Curtis">Curtis</a> (1851–1857)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Archibald_Campbell" title="John Archibald Campbell">Campbell</a> (1853–1861)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathan_Clifford" title="Nathan Clifford">Clifford</a> (1858–1881)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noah_Haynes_Swayne" title="Noah Haynes Swayne">Swayne</a> (1862–1881)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Freeman_Miller" title="Samuel Freeman Miller">Miller</a> (1862–1890)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Davis_(Supreme_Court_justice)" title="David Davis (Supreme Court justice)">Davis</a> (1862–1877)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Johnson_Field" title="Stephen Johnson Field">Field</a> (1863–1897)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Strong_(Pennsylvania_judge)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Strong (Pennsylvania judge)">Strong</a> (1870–1880)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_P._Bradley" title="Joseph P. Bradley">Bradley</a> (1870–1892)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ward_Hunt" title="Ward Hunt">Hunt</a> (1873–1882)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Marshall_Harlan" title="John Marshall Harlan">J. M. Harlan</a> (1877–1911)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Burnham_Woods" title="William Burnham Woods">Woods</a> (1881–1887)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Matthews_(judge)" title="Stanley Matthews (judge)">Matthews</a> (1881–1889)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace_Gray" title="Horace Gray">Gray</a> (1882–1902)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Blatchford" title="Samuel Blatchford">Blatchford</a> (1882–1893)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Quintus_Cincinnatus_Lamar" title="Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar">L. Lamar</a> (1888–1893)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_J._Brewer" title="David J. Brewer">Brewer</a> (1890–1910)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Billings_Brown" title="Henry Billings Brown">Brown</a> (1891–1906)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Shiras_Jr." title="George Shiras Jr.">Shiras</a> (1892–1903)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howell_E._Jackson" title="Howell E. Jackson">H. Jackson</a> (1893–1895)</li> <li><span style="background-color: #eeeeff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Douglass_White" title="Edward Douglass White">E. White</a>* (1894–1910)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rufus_W._Peckham" title="Rufus W. Peckham">Peckham</a> (1896–1909)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_McKenna" title="Joseph McKenna">McKenna</a> (1898–1925)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr." title="Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.">Holmes</a> (1902–1932)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_R._Day" title="William R. Day">Day</a> (1903–1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Moody" title="William Henry Moody">Moody</a> (1906–1910)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace_Harmon_Lurton" title="Horace Harmon Lurton">Lurton</a> (1910–1914)</li> <li><span style="background-color: #eeeeff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes" title="Charles Evans Hughes">Hughes</a>* (1910–1916)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willis_Van_Devanter" title="Willis Van Devanter">Van Devanter</a> (1911–1937)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Rucker_Lamar" title="Joseph Rucker Lamar">J. Lamar</a> (1911–1916)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahlon_Pitney" title="Mahlon Pitney">Pitney</a> (1912–1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Clark_McReynolds" title="James Clark McReynolds">McReynolds</a> (1914–1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Brandeis" title="Louis Brandeis">Brandeis</a> (1916–1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hessin_Clarke" title="John Hessin Clarke">Clarke</a> (1916–1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Sutherland" title="George Sutherland">Sutherland</a> (1922–1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierce_Butler_(judge)" title="Pierce Butler (judge)">Butler</a> (1923–1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Terry_Sanford" title="Edward Terry Sanford">Sanford</a> (1923–1930)</li> <li><span style="background-color: #eeeeff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/Harlan_F._Stone" title="Harlan F. Stone">Stone</a>* (1925–1941)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owen_Roberts" title="Owen Roberts">O. Roberts</a> (1930–1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_N._Cardozo" title="Benjamin N. Cardozo">Cardozo</a> (1932–1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Black" title="Hugo Black">Black</a> (1937–1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Forman_Reed" title="Stanley Forman Reed">Reed</a> (1938–1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felix_Frankfurter" title="Felix Frankfurter">Frankfurter</a> (1939–1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_O._Douglas" title="William O. Douglas">Douglas</a> (1939–1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Murphy" title="Frank Murphy">Murphy</a> (1940–1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_F._Byrnes" title="James F. Byrnes">Byrnes</a> (1941–1942)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson" title="Robert H. Jackson">R. Jackson</a> (1941–1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wiley_Rutledge" title="Wiley Rutledge">W. Rutledge</a> (1943–1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_H._Burton" title="Harold H. Burton">Burton</a> (1945–1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_C._Clark" title="Tom C. Clark">Clark</a> (1949–1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherman_Minton" title="Sherman Minton">Minton</a> (1949–1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Marshall_Harlan_II" title="John Marshall Harlan II">J. M. Harlan II</a> (1955–1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_J._Brennan_Jr." title="William J. Brennan Jr.">Brennan</a> (1956–1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Evans_Whittaker" title="Charles Evans Whittaker">Whittaker</a> (1957–1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Potter_Stewart" title="Potter Stewart">Stewart</a> (1958–1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byron_White" title="Byron White">B. White</a> (1962–1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Goldberg" title="Arthur Goldberg">Goldberg</a> (1962–1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abe_Fortas" title="Abe Fortas">Fortas</a> (1965–1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall" title="Thurgood Marshall">T. Marshall</a> (1967–1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Blackmun" title="Harry Blackmun">Blackmun</a> (1970–1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr." title="Lewis F. Powell Jr.">Powell</a> (1972–1987)</li> <li><span style="background-color: #eeeeff;color:black;"><a href="/wiki/William_Rehnquist" title="William Rehnquist">Rehnquist</a>* (1972–1986)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Paul_Stevens" title="John Paul Stevens">Stevens</a> (1975–2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor" title="Sandra Day O&#39;Connor">O'Connor</a> (1981–2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonin_Scalia" title="Antonin Scalia">Scalia</a> (1986–2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy">Kennedy</a> (1988–2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Souter" title="David Souter">Souter</a> (1990–2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarence_Thomas" title="Clarence Thomas">Thomas</a> (1991–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg" title="Ruth Bader Ginsburg">Ginsburg</a> (1993–2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Breyer" title="Stephen Breyer">Breyer</a> (1994–2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Alito" title="Samuel Alito">Alito</a> (2006–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor" title="Sonia Sotomayor">Sotomayor</a> (2009–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elena_Kagan" title="Elena Kagan">Kagan</a> (2010–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch" title="Neil Gorsuch">Gorsuch</a> (2017–present)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Kavanaugh</a> (2018–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amy_Coney_Barrett" title="Amy Coney Barrett">Barrett</a> (2020–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ketanji_Brown_Jackson" title="Ketanji Brown Jackson">K. 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