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'''Brett Michael Kavanaugh''' (/ˈkævənɔː/, born February 12, 1965) is an American attorney and [[United States federal judge|United States Circuit Judge]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]].
'''Brett Michael Kavanaugh''' (/ˈkævənɔː/, born February 12, 1965) is an American attorney and [[United States federal judge|United States Circuit Judge]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]].


As an attorney working for [[Ken Starr]], Kavanaugh played a lead role in drafting the ''[[Starr Report]]'', which urged the [[impeachment of Bill Clinton|impeachment]] of President [[Bill Clinton]].<ref name="protege">{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Testing of a President: The Authors; A Young Protege of Starr, and an Established Nonfiction Writer|first1=David|last1=Chen|first2=Neil A|last2=Lewis|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/12/us/testing-president-authors-young-protege-starr-established-nonfiction-writer.html|date=September 12, 1998|accessdate= November 8, 2011}}</ref> Kavanaugh led the investigation into the [[Suicide of Vince Foster|suicide]] of Clinton aide [[Vince Foster]]. After the [[United States presidential election, 2000|2000 U.S. presidential election]] (in which Kavanaugh worked for the George W. Bush campaign in the [[2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida|Florida recount]]), Kavanaugh joined the administration as [[White House Office of the Staff Secretary|White House Staff Secretary]] and was a central figure in its efforts to identify and confirm judicial nominees.<ref name="nominees">{{cite news|first=Neil|last=Lewis|title=Bush Aide on Court Nominees Faces Fire as Nominee Himself|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/28/us/bush-aide-on-court-nominees-faces-fire-as-nominee-himself.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 28, 2004|accessdate=November 8, 2011}}</ref>
As an attorney working for [[Ken Starr]], Kavanaugh played a lead role in drafting the ''[[Starr Report]]'', which urged the [[impeachment of Bill Clinton|impeachment]] of President [[Bill Clinton]].<ref name="protege">{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Testing of a President: The Authors; A Young Protege of Starr, and an Established Nonfiction Writer|first1=David|last1=Chen|first2=Neil A|last2=Lewis|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/12/us/testing-president-authors-young-protege-starr-established-nonfiction-writer.html|date=September 12, 1998|accessdate= November 8, 2011}}</ref> Kavanaugh led the investigation into the [[Suicide of Vince Foster|suicide]] of Clinton aide [[Vince Foster]]. After the [[United States presidential election, 2000|2000 U.S. presidential election]] (in which Kavanaugh worked for the George W. Bush campaign in the [[2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida|Florida recount]]), Kavanaugh joined the administration as [[White House Office of the Staff Secretary|White House Staff Secretary]] and was a central figure in its efforts to identify and confirm judicial nominees.<ref name="nominees">{{cite news|first=Neil|last=Lewis|title=Bush Aide on Court Nominees Faces Fire as Nominee Himself|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/28/us/bush-aide-on-court-nominees-faces-fire-as-nominee-himself.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 28, 2004|accessdate=November 8, 2011}}</ref> The [[American Bar Association]] (ABA) unanimously gave its highest rating to Judge Kavanaugh.


Kavanaugh was first nominated to the Court of Appeals by Bush in 2003. His confirmation hearings were contentious and stalled for three years over charges of partisanship. Kavanaugh was ultimately confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in May 2006 after a series of negotiations between Democratic and Republican U.S. Senators.<ref name="hearings">{{cite news|first=Neil|last=Lewis|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/washington/10judge.html|title=Senators Renew Jousting Over Court Pick|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 10, 2006|accessdate=November 8, 2011}}</ref><ref name="fuel">{{cite news|first=Neil|last=Lewis|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/us/bush-selects-two-for-bench-adding-fuel-to-senate-fire.html|title=Bush Selects Two for Bench, Adding Fuel to Senate Fire|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 26, 2003|accessdate=November 8, 2011}}</ref><ref name="confirmed">{{cite news|first=Laurie|last=Kellman|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/26/AR2006052601122.html|title=Kavanaugh Confirmed U.S. Appellate Judge|work=[[The Washington Post]]|publisher=Nash Holdings LLC|location=Washington DC|date = May 23, 2006|accessdate=November 8, 2011}}</ref> An analysis covering the period 2003–2018 found that Kavanaugh had the most or second-most conservative voting record on the D.C. Court in every policy area.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/09/05/its-hard-to-find-a-federal-judge-more-conservative-than-brett-kavanaugh|title=Analysis {{!}} It's hard to find a federal judge more conservative than Brett Kavanaugh|website=Washington Post|language=en|access-date=September 5, 2018}}</ref>
Kavanaugh was first nominated to the Court of Appeals by Bush in 2003. His confirmation hearings were contentious and stalled for three years over charges of partisanship. Kavanaugh was ultimately confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in May 2006 after a series of negotiations between Democratic and Republican U.S. Senators.<ref name="hearings">{{cite news|first=Neil|last=Lewis|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/washington/10judge.html|title=Senators Renew Jousting Over Court Pick|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 10, 2006|accessdate=November 8, 2011}}</ref><ref name="fuel">{{cite news|first=Neil|last=Lewis|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/us/bush-selects-two-for-bench-adding-fuel-to-senate-fire.html|title=Bush Selects Two for Bench, Adding Fuel to Senate Fire|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 26, 2003|accessdate=November 8, 2011}}</ref><ref name="confirmed">{{cite news|first=Laurie|last=Kellman|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/26/AR2006052601122.html|title=Kavanaugh Confirmed U.S. Appellate Judge|work=[[The Washington Post]]|publisher=Nash Holdings LLC|location=Washington DC|date = May 23, 2006|accessdate=November 8, 2011}}</ref> An analysis covering the period 2003–2018 found that Kavanaugh had the most or second-most conservative voting record on the D.C. Court in every policy area.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/09/05/its-hard-to-find-a-federal-judge-more-conservative-than-brett-kavanaugh|title=Analysis {{!}} It's hard to find a federal judge more conservative than Brett Kavanaugh|website=Washington Post|language=en|access-date=September 5, 2018}}</ref>

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Brett Kavanaugh
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Assumed office
May 30, 2006
Appointed byGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byLaurence Silberman
White House Staff Secretary
In office
June 6, 2003 – May 30, 2006
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byHarriet Miers
Succeeded byRaul F. Yanes
Personal details
Born
Brett Michael Kavanaugh

(1965-02-12) February 12, 1965 (age 59)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
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(m. 2004)​
Children2[1]
EducationYale University (BA, JD)

Brett Michael Kavanaugh (/ˈkævənɔː/, born February 12, 1965) is an American attorney and United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

As an attorney working for Ken Starr, Kavanaugh played a lead role in drafting the Starr Report, which urged the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.[2] Kavanaugh led the investigation into the suicide of Clinton aide Vince Foster. After the 2000 U.S. presidential election (in which Kavanaugh worked for the George W. Bush campaign in the Florida recount), Kavanaugh joined the administration as White House Staff Secretary and was a central figure in its efforts to identify and confirm judicial nominees.[3] The American Bar Association (ABA) unanimously gave its highest rating to Judge Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh was first nominated to the Court of Appeals by Bush in 2003. His confirmation hearings were contentious and stalled for three years over charges of partisanship. Kavanaugh was ultimately confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in May 2006 after a series of negotiations between Democratic and Republican U.S. Senators.[4][5][6] An analysis covering the period 2003–2018 found that Kavanaugh had the most or second-most conservative voting record on the D.C. Court in every policy area.[7]

On July 9, 2018, President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy.[8][9] Trump and his advisors reportedly viewed Kavanaugh as "a stalwart originalist".[10][11]

Early life and education

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Kavanaugh as a student at Yale

Kavanaugh was born on February 12, 1965, in Washington, D.C., the son of Martha Gamble (Murphy) and Everett Edward Kavanaugh Jr.[12][13] His mother was a history teacher at Woodson and McKinley high schools in Washington in the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her law degree from Washington College of Law in 1978 and served as a Maryland state Circuit Court Judge from 1995 to 2001.[14][15] His father was the president of the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association for two decades.[16]

Kavanaugh was raised in Bethesda, Maryland. As a teenager he attended Georgetown Preparatory School, where he was two years senior to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.[17][18] After prep school, Kavanaugh went to Yale University and majored in history.[19] Several of Kavanaugh's Yale classmates remembered him as a "serious, but not showy student" who loved sports, especially basketball.[19] He unsuccessfully tried out for the Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team, and later played for two years on the university's junior varsity team instead.[19] He also wrote articles about basketball and other sports for the Yale Daily News.[19] Kavanaugh graduated from Yale in 1987 with a B.A. cum laude.[19]

After receiving his bachelor's degree, Kavanaugh remained at Yale to attend Yale Law School. During law school he lived in a dilapidated group house with future judge James E. Boasberg and became a basketball partner of Professor George L. Priest, who was the sponsor of the school's Federalist Society.[20] Kavanaugh served as a Notes Editor for the Yale Law Journal, and graduated with a J.D. in 1990.[21]

Early legal career (1990–2006)

Brett Kavanaugh while working for the Independent Counsel in the 1990s

Kavanaugh first worked as a law clerk for Judge Walter King Stapleton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.[20] During Kavanaugh's clerkship, Stapleton wrote the majority opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which the Third Circuit upheld many of Pennsylvania's abortion restrictions.[20] Priest recommended Kavanaugh to Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, who was regarded as a feeder judge.[20]

After clerking for Judge Kozinski, Kavanaugh next interviewed with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, but he was not offered a clerkship.[20]

Kavanaugh then earned a one-year fellowship with the Solicitor General of the United States, Ken Starr.[22] Kavanaugh next clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, working alongside his high school classmate Neil Gorsuch and with future-Judge Gary Feinerman.[17]

Kavanaugh with President George W. Bush and other White House staffers in 2001. Kavanaugh is seated directly to the left of Bush.

After his Supreme Court clerkship, Kavanaugh worked for Ken Starr again as an Associate Counsel in the Office of the Independent Counsel, where his colleagues included Rod Rosenstein and Alex Azar.[23] In that capacity, he handled a number of the novel constitutional and legal issues presented during the Vincent Foster investigation.[23][24][25] In Swidler & Berlin v. United States (1998), Kavanaugh argued his first and only case before the Supreme Court when he asked it to disregard attorney–client privilege in relation to the investigation of Foster's death.[26] The Supreme Court rejected Kavanaugh's arguments by a vote of 6–3.[27]

Kavanaugh was a principal author of the Starr Report to Congress on the Monica Lewinsky–Bill Clinton sex scandal.[23] He urged Starr to ask the president sexually graphic questions and argued on broad grounds for the impeachment of Bill Clinton,[28][29] describing Clinton as being involved in "a conspiracy to obstruct justice", having "disgraced his office" and "lied to the American people".[30]

Kavanaugh was later a partner at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.[22] While there in 2000, he was pro bono counsel of record for relatives of Elián González, a six-year-old rescued Cuban boy while Jeffery M. Leving spearheaded the amicus brief for the boy. After the boy's mother's death at sea, members of the extended family in the U.S. wanted to keep him from returning to the care of his sole surviving parent, his father in Cuba. The district court, the Circuit Court and the Supreme Court all followed precedent, refusing to block the boy's return to his home.[31] In addition, Kavanaugh authored two amicus briefs supporting religious activities and expressions in public places.[31]

After George W. Bush became president in 2001, Kavanaugh was hired as an associate by the White House Counsel, Alberto Gonzales.[20] There, Kavanaugh worked on the Enron scandal, the successful nomination of Chief Justice John Roberts, and the unsuccessful nomination of Miguel Estrada.[20] Starting in 2003, he served as Assistant to the President and White House Staff Secretary.[22] In that capacity, he was responsible for coordinating all documents to and from the president.

Tenure as U.S. Circuit Judge (2006–present)

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Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing in 2004

President George W. Bush first nominated Kavanaugh to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on July 25, 2003, to a vacancy created by Judge Laurence Silberman, who took senior status in November 2000.[32] Kavanaugh's nomination was stalled in the Senate for nearly three years. Democratic Senators accused him of being too partisan, with Senator Dick Durbin calling him the "Forrest Gump of Republican politics".[33] In 2003, the American Bar Association rated Kavanaugh as "well qualified", but, after opposition from Senate Democrats, rated him in 2006 as only "qualified".[20] His nomination was opposed by People for the American Way.[34]

The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary recommended confirmation on a 10–8 party-line vote on May 11, 2006,[35] and Kavanaugh was thereafter confirmed to the court by the United States Senate on May 26, 2006, by a vote of 57–36.[36][37] On June 1, 2006, he was sworn in by Justice Anthony Kennedy, for whom he had previously clerked, during a special Rose Garden ceremony at the White House.[38] Kavanaugh was the fourth judge nominated to the D.C. Circuit by Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate. Kavanaugh began hearing cases on September 11, 2006, and had his formal investiture on September 27, at the Prettyman Courthouse. His first published opinion was released on November 17, 2006.[39]

Kavanaugh being sworn in by Justice Anthony Kennedy as President George W. Bush and Kavanaugh's wife, Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, look on

In July 2007, Democratic Senators Patrick Leahy and Dick Durbin accused Kavanaugh of "misleading" the Senate Judiciary Committee during his nomination. Durbin and Leahy accused Kavanaugh of lying to them in his confirmation hearing when he denied being involved in formulating the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. In 2002, Kavanaugh had met with other White House lawyers, and talked about whether or not the Supreme Court would approve of denying lawyers to prisoners detained as enemy combatants. Kavanaugh had previously been a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, and predicted in that meeting that Kennedy would not approve of denying legal counsel to those prisoners.[40] Durbin said, "It appears that you misled me, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the nation." [41] This issue re-emerged in July 2018, as Kavanaugh was under consideration for a nomination to the Supreme Court,[42] which Kavanaugh received.

Notable cases

The Supreme Court has adopted Kavanaugh's position on cases 13 times, and has reversed his position only once. These included cases involving environmental regulations, criminal procedure, the separation of powers and extraterritorial jurisdiction in human rights abuse cases.[20][43] He has been regarded as a feeder judge.[44]

Abortion

During his confirmation hearing in 2006 for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Kavanaugh stated that he considered Roe v. Wade binding under the principle of stare decisis and would follow the ruling of the higher court.[45] However, he also ruled in favor of abortion restrictions in at least one case.[46][47][48] In a 2017 speech, Kavanaugh lauded the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist for dissenting in Roe v. Wade, saying that Rehnquist believed an "unenumerated" right to abortion would have to be "rooted into the traditions and conscience of our people. Given the prevalence of abortion regulations both historically and at the time, Rehnquist said he could not reach such a conclusion about abortion."[49]

In October 2017, Kavanaugh joined an unsigned divided panel opinion which found that the Office of Refugee Resettlement could temporarily prevent an unaccompanied alien minor in its custody from traveling to obtain an abortion.[48] Days later, the en banc D.C. Circuit reversed that judgment, with Kavanaugh dissenting.[48][50] The girl then obtained an abortion.[48] In his dissent, Linda Greenhouse says Kavanaugh criticized the majority for creating "a new right for unlawful immigrant minors in U.S. government detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand".[51] In Azar v. Garza (2018), the girl's claim was ultimately dismissed as moot after the en banc D.C. Circuit's judgment was vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court.[52]

Affordable Care Act

In November 2011, Kavanaugh dissented when the D.C. Circuit upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), arguing that the court did not have jurisdiction to hear the case.[53][54] In his dissent concerning jurisdiction, he compared the individual mandate to a tax.[55] After a unanimous panel found that the ACA did not violate the Constitution's Origination Clause in Sissel v. United States Department of Health & Human Services (2014), Kavanaugh wrote a lengthy dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc.[56][57] In May 2015, Kavanaugh dissented from a decision that denied an en banc rehearing of the Priests for Life v. HHS ruling in which the panel upheld the ACA's contraceptive mandate accommodations against Priests for Life's Religious Freedom Restoration Act claims.[58][59] In Zubik v. Burwell (2016), the Supreme Court vacated the circuit's judgment in a per curiam decision.[60]

Appointments Clause and separation of powers

In August 2008, Kavanaugh dissented when the circuit found that the Constitution's Appointments Clause did not prevent the Sarbanes–Oxley Act from creating a board whose members were not directly removable by the President.[61][62] In Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (2010), the Supreme Court reversed the circuit's judgment by a vote of 5–4.[63]

In 2015, Kavanaugh found that those directly regulated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) could challenge the constitutionality of its design.[64][65] In October 2016, Kavanaugh 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.[66][67] In January 2018, the en banc D.C. Circuit reversed that judgment by a vote of 7–3, over the dissent of Kavanaugh.[68][69]

Environmental regulation

In 2013, Kavanaugh issued an extraordinary writ of mandamus requiring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to process the license application of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, over the dissent of Judge Merrick Garland.[70][71] In April 2014, Kavanaugh dissented when the court found that Labor Secretary Tom Perez could issue workplace safety citations against SeaWorld regarding the multiple killings of its workers by Tilikum the orca.[72][73]

After Kavanaugh wrote for a divided panel striking down a Clean Air Act regulation, the Supreme Court reversed by a vote of 6–2 in EPA v. EME Homer City Generation, L.P. (2014).[74][75] Kavanaugh dissented from the denial of rehearing en banc of a unanimous panel opinion upholding the agency's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and a fractured Supreme Court reversed by a vote of 5–4 in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency (2014).[76][77] After Judge Kavanaugh dissented from a per curiam decision allowing the agency to disregard cost–benefit analysis, the Supreme Court reversed by a vote of 5–4 in Michigan v. EPA (2015).[78][79]

Extraterritorial jurisdiction

In Doe v. Exxon Mobil Corp. (2007), Kavanaugh dissented when the circuit court allowed a lawsuit making accusations of ExxonMobil human rights violations in Indonesia to proceed, arguing in his dissent that the claims were not justiciable.[80][81] Kavanaugh dissented again when the circuit court later found that the corporation could be sued under the Alien Tort Statute of 1789.[43][82][83]

First Amendment and free speech

Kavanaugh wrote for unanimous three-judge district courts when they held that the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act could restrict soft money donations to political parties and could forbid campaign contributions by foreign citizens.[84][85] Those judgments were both summarily affirmed on direct appeal by the Supreme Court.[86]

In 2014, Kavanaugh concurred in the judgment when the en banc D.C. Circuit found that the Free Speech Clause did not forbid the government from requiring meatpackers to include a country of origin label on their products.[87][88] In United States Telecom Ass'n v. FCC (2016), Kavanaugh dissented when the en banc circuit refused to rehear a rejected challenge to the net neutrality rule, writing that "Congress did not clearly authorize the FCC to issue the net neutrality rule".[22][89][90]

Fourth Amendment and civil liberties

In November 2010, Kavanaugh dissented from the denial of rehearing en banc after the circuit found that attaching a Global Positioning System tracking device to a vehicle violated the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[91][92] The circuit's judgment was then affirmed by the Supreme Court in United States v. Jones (2012).[93] In February 2016, Kavanaugh dissented when the en banc circuit refused to rehear police officers' rejected claims of qualified immunity for arresting partygoers in a vacant house.[22][94] In District of Columbia v. Wesby (2018), the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the circuit's judgment.[95]

In Klayman v. Obama (2015), Kavanaugh concurred when the circuit court denied an en banc rehearing of its decision to vacate a district court order blocking the National Security Agency's warrantless bulk collection of telephony metadata.[96][97] In his concurrence, Kavanaugh wrote that the metadata collection was not a search, and, even if it were, no reasonable suspicion would be required because of the government's special need to prevent terrorist attacks.[98]

National security

In April 2009, Kavanaugh wrote a lengthy concurrence when the court found that detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had no right to advanced notice before being transferred to another country.[99][100] In Kiyemba v. Obama (2010), the Supreme Court vacated that judgment while refusing to review the matter.[101] In June 2010, Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence in judgment when the en banc D.C. Circuit found that the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory owners could not bring a defamation suit regarding the government's allegations that they were terrorists.[102][103] In October 2012, he wrote for a unanimous court when it found that the Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause made it unlawful for the government to prosecute Salim Hamdan under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 on charges of providing material support for terrorism.[104][105]

In August 2010, Kavanaugh wrote a lengthy concurrence when the en banc circuit refused to rehear Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani's rejected claims that the international law of war limits the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists.[22][106] In 2014, Kavanaugh concurred in the judgment when the en banc circuit found that Ali al-Bahlul could be retroactively convicted of war crimes, provided existing statute already made it a crime "because it does not alter the definition of the crime, the defenses or the punishment".[107][108] In October 2016, Kavanaugh wrote the plurality opinion when the en banc circuit found al-Bahlul could be convicted by a military commission even if his offenses are not internationally recognized as war crimes under the law of war.[109][110]

In Meshal v. Higgenbotham (2016), Kavanaugh concurred when the divided panel threw out a claim by an American that he had been disappeared by the FBI in a Kenyan black site.[111][112]

Second Amendment and gun ownership

In October 2011, Kavanaugh dissented when the circuit court found that a ban on the sale of semi-automatic rifles was permissible under the Second Amendment. This case followed the landmark Supreme Court ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008).[113][114]

Law clerk hiring practices

More than half of Kavanaugh's law clerks have been women (25 of 48) and more than a quarter have been people of color (13 of 48).[46] A number of Kavanaugh's law clerks are the children of other judges and high profile legal figures, including Clayton Kozinski (son of former federal Judge Alex Kozinski), Porter Wilkinson (daughter of Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III), Philip Alito (son of Justice Samuel Alito), Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld (daughter of Yale Law Professor Amy Chua), and Emily Chertoff (daughter of former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff).[115][116]

Nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States (2018)

Main article: Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination
Kavanaugh and his family with President Donald Trump in 2018

On July 2, 2018, Kavanaugh was one of four U.S. Court of Appeals judges to receive a personal 45-minute interview by President Donald Trump as a potential replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy.[117] On July 9, Trump announced his intent to nominate Kavanaugh for a seat on the Supreme Court.[118][119]

Legal philosophy and approach

The Washington Post's statistical analysis estimated that the ideologies of most of Trump's announced candidates were "statistically indistinguishable" and placed Kavanaugh between Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito.[120] Brian Bennett writing for Time magazine in July 2018 reported that Trump and his advisors viewed Kavanaugh as "a stalwart originalist".[121] Jonathan Turley of George Washington University has stated that among the judges considered by Trump, "Kavanaugh has the most robust view of presidential powers and immunities.[122] Brian Bennett writing for TIME magazine cites Kavanaugh's 2009 Minnesota Law Review article as defending the privilege of the President to immunity from prosecution during tenure in office.[122] In a 2017 speech at the American Enterprise Institute about former Chief Justice, William Rehnquist, he praised his opinions in Roe v. Wade and Furman v. Georgia, where Rehnquist dissented in rulings that overturned the ban against abortion and the statutes which supported the death penalty.[123][124] An analysis covering the period 2003–2018 found that Kavanaugh had the most or second-most conservative voting record on the D.C. Court in every policy area.[7]

During his hearing, he noted that he has repeatedly described the four greatest moments in Supreme Court history as being the cases Brown v. Board of Education, Marbury v. Madison, Youngstown Steel, and United States v. Nixon, with Brown being the single greatest.[125]

According to the Judicial Common Space scores, a score based on the ideology scores of the home state senators and president who nominated the judge to the federal bench, Clarence Thomas is the only justice more conservative than Kavanaugh. According to this metric, Kavanaugh's confirmation would mean the composition of the court would shift to the right.[126] Had Merrick Garland been confirmed, Stephen Breyer would have become the median swing vote when Justice Kennedy retired. However, since Scalia was replaced by another conservative (Gorsuch), it is expected that Chief Justice John Roberts will become the median swing vote on the Supreme Court if Kavanaugh is confirmed.[127]

Senate Judiciary Committee public hearing

The Senate Judiciary Committee commenced its public hearings on Kavanaugh's nomination on September 4, 2018. The hearings were at the onset delayed with objections from the Democratic members, concerning the absence of records during the nominee's time in the George W. Bush administration, prior to his service as a federal circuit court judge. Objections were also lodged concerning 42,000 pages received at the 11th hour before day-one of the hearings. Repeated statements from the Republicans included the assertion that the volume of documents available on this nominee equaled that of the previous 5 nominees for the court; the Democrats, whose opposition has been unanimously declared, responded with their repeated contention that only 15% of demanded documents about the nominee had been obtained. Numerous motions by the Democrats to adjourn or suspend the hearings were ruled to be out of order by Chairman Chuck Grassley, who argued that Judge 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 following day.[128]

During the first round of questions from senators on September 5, 2018, Kavanaugh made good on his earlier commitment not to convey opinions on matters which might come before the court. He thus refused to promise to recuse himself from any case, including any that might involve President Trump; he also declined to prejudge coverage of prexisting healthcare conditions, semiautomatic rifle possession, the precedent of Roe v. Wade, or the President's power to issue a self-pardon. The nominee was given the opportunity, and expounded at length upon various Constitutional amendments, stare decisis, and the President's power to dismiss federal employees. As in the prior session, there were frequent outbursts of protest in the audience, requiring security intervention and removal, as well as repeated procedural objections from Democrats.[129]

The Committee's third day of hearings began with furor over release of emails of Kavanaugh relating to a concern about potential racial profiling in security screenings. The day continued with Kavanaugh's attempts to articulate his jurisprudence, including refusing direct questions to opine on matters that he characterized as hypothetical.[130]

The Committee released a 2003 email in which Kavanaugh said, "I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to [Roe v. Wade] 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."[131] 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 the time of the statement.[132] Sen. Susan Collins, a key but undeclared vote in the confirmation, indicated the statement did not contradict Kavenaugh’s personal assurance to her that Roe is settled law.[133]

Teaching and scholarship

Since joining the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Kavanaugh taught full-term courses on Separation of Powers at Harvard Law School from 2008 to 2015, on the Supreme Court at Harvard Law School between 2014 and 2018, on National Security and Foreign Relations Law at Yale Law School in 2011, and on Constitutional Interpretation at Georgetown University Law Center in 2007. Kavanaugh has also been named the Samuel Williston Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School since 2009.[134] Kavanaugh was hired as a visiting professor by Elena Kagan, who was then the dean of Harvard Law School in 2008 and according to The Boston Globe, quickly became a student favorite professor who was generous with his time and accessible. He would often dine in Cambridge with students and offer references and career advice.[135][136] Kavanaugh received high evaluations from his students, including J. D. Vance.[137]

In 2009, Kavanaugh wrote an article for the Minnesota Law Review in which he argued that Congress should exempt U.S. presidents from civil lawsuits while in office[138] 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."[139] Kavanaugh argued that if a president "does something dastardly", that president may be impeached by the House of Representatives, convicted by the Senate, and criminally prosecuted after leaving office.[138] The US 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".[138] This article garnered attention in 2018 when Kavanaugh was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Donald Trump, whose 2016 presidential campaign is the subject of an ongoing federal probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.[139]

When reviewing a book on statutory interpretation by Second Circuit Chief Judge Robert Katzmann, Kavanaugh observed that judges often cannot agree on a statute if its text is ambiguous.[140] To remedy this, Kavanaugh 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 constitutional avoidance, legislative history, and Chevron deference.[140]

Personal life

Kavanaugh with his daughters

Kavanaugh had his first date with his future wife Ashley Estes, then–personal secretary to President George W. Bush, on September 10, 2001. They were among the occupants of the White House evacuated during the September 11 attacks.[141]

In early 2006, Kavanaugh and his wife bought a $1.2-million home in Chevy Chase Section Five, Maryland.[20] In 2018, Kavanaugh reported that he earned a $220,000 salary as a federal judge and $27,000 as a lecturer at Harvard Law School during the previous year.[142]

Kavanaugh is an avid runner who has run the Boston Marathon in 2010 and 2015.[143]

Kavanaugh is a Catholic[141] and serves as a regular lector at his Washington, D.C. church, the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament. 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.[141][144]

Publications

See also

References

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