Brett Kavanaugh | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-04

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Brett Kavanaugh


00:02:32 1 Early life and education
00:05:18 2 Legal career (1990–2006)
00:05:30 2.1 Clerkships and admittance to the bar
00:06:38 2.2 Ken Starr associate counsel
00:08:55 2.3 Private practice
00:10:13 2.4 Federalist Society
00:10:43 3 U.S. Circuit Judge (2006–2018)
00:12:24 3.1 Notable cases
00:12:56 3.1.1 Abortion
00:13:57 3.1.2 Affordable Care Act
00:14:54 3.1.3 Appointments Clause and separation of powers
00:15:56 3.1.4 Environmental regulation
00:17:13 3.1.5 Extraterritorial jurisdiction
00:17:47 3.1.6 First Amendment and free speech
00:18:43 3.1.7 Fourth Amendment and civil liberties
00:19:56 3.1.8 National security
00:21:46 3.1.9 Second Amendment and gun ownership
00:22:12 3.2 Law clerk hiring practices
00:23:46 4 Nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States
00:24:42 4.1 Legal philosophy and approach
00:26:46 4.2 Senate Judiciary Committee public hearings
00:33:10 4.3 Senate action
00:34:40 4.4 Swearing-in
00:35:19 4.5 Ethics investigation
00:36:06 5 Sexual assault allegations
00:36:16 5.1 Christine Blasey Ford
00:43:31 5.2 Deborah Ramirez
00:44:24 5.3 Julie Swetnick
00:45:33 6 Teaching and scholarship
00:48:21 7 Personal life
00:49:32 8 Publications
00:52:57 9 See also



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Brett Michael Kavanaugh (; born February 12, 1965) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He previously served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and as a staff lawyer for various offices of the U.S. government.Kavanaugh graduated from Yale University cum laude, with a degree in American history. After graduating from Yale Law School, he began his career as a law clerk and then a postgraduate fellow working under Judge Ken Starr. After Starr left the D.C. Circuit to take the position as head of the Office of Independent Counsel, Kavanaugh followed him to the OIC and assisted him with various investigations concerning President Bill Clinton, including the drafting of the Starr Report, which urged Clinton's impeachment. After the 2000 U.S. presidential election (in which he worked for the George W. Bush campaign in the Florida recount), he joined the administration as White House Staff Secretary and was a central figure in its efforts to identify and confirm judicial nominees.Kavanaugh was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by President Bush in 2003. His confirmation hearings were contentious; they stalled for three years over charges of partisanship. He was ultimately confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in May 2006 after a series of negotiations between Democratic and Republican U.S. Senators. A Washington Post analysis found he had the most or second-most conservative voting record on the D.C. Court in every policy area between 2003 and 2018.President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on July 9, 2018, to fill the position vacated by retiring justice Anthony Kennedy. Before his nomination, when Kavanaugh's name was on the short list of Supreme Court nominees, Palo Alto University Professor of Psychology Christine Blasey Ford contacted a Washington Post tip line with allegations that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s while the two of them were in high school. Two other women also accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Kavanaugh denied all three allegations. Following a supplemental Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Republican committee members stated that all allegations were unsubstantiated. After an additional FBI investigation, which Democrats have criticized, the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh's nomination by a vote of 50–48 on October 6, and he was sworn in later that day.