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Brett Michael Kavanaugh (/ˈkævənɔː/;
born February 12, 1965) is an American lawyer and
jurist who is
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
federal government.[2]
Kavanaugh graduated from
Yale University, where he joined
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. 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 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.[3]
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.[4][5][2]
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.[6][contradictory]
President Trump nominated Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court on July 9, 2018,
to fill the position vacated by retiring Associate Justice
Anthony Kennedy. When Kavanaugh's name was on the short list of Supreme
Court nominees and before his nomination, Palo Alto University Professor of
Psychology
Christine Blasey Ford contacted a Washington Post tip line with
accusations that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s while
the two were in high school.[7][8][9]
Two other women also accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.[10][11]
Kavanaugh denied all three accusations. The Republican-controlled
Senate Judiciary Committee held a supplemental hearing over Ford's
allegations, after which it voted to advance the confirmation to a full Senate
vote. After delaying the vote for an additional
FBI investigation, the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh's nomination by a vote of
50–48 on October 6, 2018.[12][13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh
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September 17:
President Donald Trump on Monday defended Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her when the two were in high
school, praising him as "one of the finest people" and signaling that he
supports a proposed hearing on the allegations.
http://www.inforum.com/news/government-and-politics/4500443-trump-defends-kavanaugh-after-sexual-assault-allegation
September 22: A press adviser helping lead
the Senate Judiciary Committee’s response to a sexual assault allegation against
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has stepped down amid evidence he was
fired from a previous political job in part because of a sexual harassment
allegation against him.
Garrett Ventry, 29, who served as a communications aide to the committee chaired
by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, had been helping coordinate the majority
party's messaging in the wake of Christine Blasey Ford’s claim that Kavanaugh
sexually assaulted her 36 years ago at a high school party. In a response to NBC
News, Ventry denied any past "allegations of misconduct."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/spokesman-gop-kavanaugh-nomination-resigns-has-been-accused-harassment-past-n912156
September 23: Sen. Mazie Hirono on Sunday
suggested that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's "outcome-driven"
conservative judicial philosophy directly undermines the credibility of his
denials that he sexually assaulted California professor Christine Ford at a
house party more than three decades ago.
"I put his denial in the context of everything that I know about him in terms
of how he approaches his cases," Hirono told host Jake Tapper, in response to a
question about whether Kavanaugh was entitled to a presumption of innocence.
"His credibility is already very questionable in my mind. ... When I say that
he's very outcome-driven, he has an ideological agenda, and I can sit here and
talk to you about some of the cases that exemplify his, in my view, inability to
be fair."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/23/top-democrat-cites-kavanaughs-outcome-driven-legal-philosophy-as-reason-to-deny-him-due-process.html
September 24:
Just as negotiators reached agreement on an extraordinary hearing for Brett
Kavanaugh and his accuser, a second allegation of sexual misconduct by the
Supreme Court nominee put the White House and Senate Republicans on the
defensive and fueled calls from Democrats to postpone further action on his
confirmation.
https://apnews.com/ca62798d66554461876a42cceb6eac19
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September 24:
Both allegations against Kavanaugh involve incidents that allegedly occurred
when he and his accusers were heavily drinking as teenagers.
Psychology researcher and Palo Alto University professor Christine Blasey Ford,
51, alleges that Kavanaugh and his Georgetown Preparatory School classmate Mark
Judge locked her in a bedroom at a party in 1982. She said Kavanaugh held her
down, put his hand over her mouth to silence her, and tried to remove her
clothes. Ford's attorney Debra Katz said her client considers the alleged
incident to be an "attempted rape."
Deborah Ramirez, a Yale University classmate of Kavanaugh's, claims that he
exposed himself to her and shoved his penis in her face at a dorm room party in
their freshman year at the Ivy League school. She said they were playing a
drinking game at the time and admits there are gaps in her memory of that
night.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/24/brett-kavanaugh-allegations-what-we-know-supreme-court/1408474002/
September 24: [Ramirez] recalled another male student shouting about the
incident. “Somebody yelled down the hall, ‘Brett Kavanaugh just put his penis in
Debbie’s face,’ ” she said.
A classmate of Ramirez’s, who declined to be identified because of the partisan
battle over Kavanaugh’s nomination, said that another student told him about the
incident either on the night of the party or in the next day or two. ... “I’ve
known this all along,” he said. “It’s been on my mind all these years when his
name came up. It was a big deal.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez
September 24: Brett Kavanaugh launched a
bold effort to save his nomination to the US Supreme Court on Monday, lashing
out at "smears" and a "grotesque and obvious character assassination" following
the emergence of a new allegation of inappropriate sexual behavior.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/24/politics/kavanaugh-new-allegation-supreme-court-future/index.html
September 24: Avenatti says more Kavanaugh
accusations will go public within 48 hours: 'I state facts and have evidence to
back it up'
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/24/avenatti-says-more-kavanaugh-accusations-will-go-public-within-48-hours-state-facts-and-have-evidence-to-back-it-up.html
September 24: National Sexual Assault
Hotline Sees Sharp Surge In Calls Amid Kavanaugh Allegations
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) reported a 42 percent increase
in calls on Friday and Saturday.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rainn-national-sexual-assault-hotline-kavanaugh_us_5ba8b9a2e4b0375f8f9ebb02
September 24: Hundreds Of Yale Students
Protest Kavanaugh, Demand Investigation
The elite law school canceled 31 classes to help facilitate protests on campus
and in Washington, D.C.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yale-students-protest-kavanaughs_us_5ba8fa09e4b0375f8f9f1e18
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September 24: #BelieveSurvivors protests
erupt nationwide against Brett Kavanaugh; dozens arrested in D.C.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/24/brett-kavanaugh-arrests-made-capitol-during-kavanaugh-protests/1409906002/
September 25:
Trump Defends Kavanaugh: ‘I Understand College Very Well’
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/trump-defends-kavanaugh-i-understand-college-very-well.html
September 25:
With Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh facing multiple accusations of sexual
assault and misconduct, President Donald Trump finds himself in a familiar
place, falling back on familiar rhetoric.
“Judge Brett Kavanaugh is a fine man, with an impeccable reputation, who is
under assault by radical left wing politicians who don’t want to know the
answers, they just want to destroy and delay. Facts don’t matter.” the president
tweeted Friday.
This is rich coming from a guy who has made
more than 5,000 false or misleading claims since he took office.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/09/25/brett-kavanaugh-sex-allegations-donald-trump-denies-defends-column/1421084002/
September 26:
The Senate Judiciary Committee is reviewing a statement from a third woman who
has come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court
nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
The allegations, from a woman identified as Julie Swetnick, were made public by
attorney Michael Avenatti on Wednesday morning.
Avenatti posted Swetnick's three-page sworn declaration on Twitter.
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/26/651797758/judiciary-committee-review-new-sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-kavanaugh?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20180926&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews
September 26: Attorney Michael Avenatti, on
the eve of Brett Kavanaugh's high-profile hearing to address sexual misconduct
allegations, identified and released a "sworn declaration" from a woman who
claims the Supreme Court nominee was involved in "gang" rapes in the early
1980s.
Avenatti’s client was identified as Julie Swetnick, who further claims in the
statement that Kavanaugh and a friend were "present" when she became a "victim
of one of these 'gang' or 'train' rapes" in 1982.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/26/avenatti-releases-graphic-kavanaugh-allegations-calls-for-new-delay.html
September 26: Dem senator
filing suit asking court to halt Kavanaugh confirmation
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/26/dem-senator-filing-suit-asking-court-to-halt-kavanaugh-confirmation.html
September 28: Senate Judiciary Committee
Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, set a committee vote on Kavanaugh for Friday
afternoon, while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., planned a full
floor vote for early next week.
Kavanaugh is poised to at least make it out of committee, with the
late-breaking support of GOP Sen. Jeff Flake -- after the panel heard dramatic
testimony from the nominee and Christine Blasey Ford, who accuses him of
sexually assaulting her in 1982.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/28/kavanaugh-threatened-anew-with-impeachment-as-supreme-court-vote-nears.html
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September 29: Liz Swisher, former Yale
classmate of Brett Kavanaugh, told CNN's
Chris Cuomo she
never saw Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh be sexually aggressive, but
said that he lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his drinking habits.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/09/29/liz-swisher-yale-classmate-sloppy-drunk-bts-cuomo-vpx.cnn
October 2: Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser
Christine Blasey Ford at campaign rally
After saying last week that her Senate testimony was "very credible," the
president on Tuesday night repeatedly ridiculed the woman who says she was
attacked.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-mocks-christine-blasey-ford-mississippi-campaign-rally-n916061
October 2: The audience laughed as Trump
ran through a list of what he described as holes in Christine Blasey Ford's
testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. She testified that Kavanaugh
pinned her on a bed, tried to take off her clothes and covered her mouth in
the early 1980s, when the two were teenagers. Kavanaugh has denied Ford's
allegations.
"How did you get home? 'I don't remember,'" Trump said at the rally in
Southaven. "How did you get there? 'I don't remember.' Where is the place? 'I
don't remember.' How many years ago was it? 'I don't know. I don't know. I
don't know.'"
Imitating Ford, he added, "But I had one beer — that's the only thing I
remember."
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/in-mississippi-trump-mocks-fords-claims-against-kavanaugh
October 4: A GOP leader in North Carolina
this week shared a fake photo this week mocking Christine Blasey Ford, the
first woman to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually
assaulting her, for her looks.
Lanny Lancaster, the Carrabus County GOP chairman, shared a photo of a young
woman wearing braces and glasses with the comment, “This is the alleged sexual
assault victim. Wow.”
The photo, which is not of Ford, has been circulating the internet for years,
the News & Observer reported.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/409939-north-carolina-gop-leader-shares-fake-photo-mocking-ford
October 5:
Brett Kavanaugh moves towards Supreme Court confirmation after Susan Collins,
Joe Manchin pledge support
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/05/brett-kavanaugh-senate-vote-determine-supreme-court-nominees-fate/1527037002/
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November 3:
Trump challenges Democrats after Kavanaugh accuser admits to making false rape
accusation
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley
referred Judy Munro-Leighton to authorities after his office said she
alleged that Kavanaugh and a friend raped her in the backseat of a car -- only
for that story to fall apart.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-challenges-democrats-after-kavanaugh-accuser-admits-to-making-false-rape-accusation-where-are-the-dems-on-this
November 3:
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican who presided
over Kavanaugh's contentious confirmation hearings, requested
in a letter to the Justice Department and the FBI on Friday that the
agencies investigate Judy Munro-Leighton for making false statements to
committee investigators and obstructing committee investigations.
Grassley has also referred for investigation another Kavanaugh accuser, Julie
Swetnick, as well as her attorney, Michael Avenatti — best known for
representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels in her suit against President
Donald Trump.
Avenatti fired back at Trump in a tweet Saturday, writing: ".@realDonaldTrump
- my client Ms. Swetnick and I are still waiting on the supposed 'criminal
investigation' that Chuck 'I Never Went to Law School' Grassley demanded. I
have only heard from the FBI once - to tell me I was a target of your MAGA
bomber. You are a complete fraud."
Trump has sought to make Kavanaugh's bitter confirmation process a
campaign-trail issue in the run-up to the midterm elections.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/03/trump-kavanaugh-accusers-fbi-doj-959452
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April 13: A top aide to Hillary
Clinton’s 2016
presidential campaign -- now leading a liberal “dark money” group -- is backing
a student effort at
George
Mason University to get Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh fired from
teaching a summer course over misconduct allegations.
“Brett Kavanaugh’s performance during his testimony in front of the Senate was a
disgrace. His blatant partisan attacks and hostile behavior towards senators
calls into question his ability to serve as a fair and impartial judge. His
conduct undermines the legitimacy of his decisions and the entire Supreme
Court,”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-official-george-mason-kavanaugh-allegations
April 16:
New Study Reveals How Kavanaugh Hearings Changed Americans
How the Kavanaugh Hearings Changed American Men and Women
https://www.thecut.com/2019/04/new-study-reveals-how-kavanaugh-hearings-changed-americans.html
May 1: There’s a New Push to Review Judicial
Misconduct Complaints Against Brett Kavanaugh
A judicial ethics panel has been asked to review orders dismissing misconduct
complaints against Justice Brett Kavanaugh relating to his emotionally charged
testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The petition, from a New York attorney called Jeremy C. Bates, was sent to
the Judicial Conference of the United States, the policymaking entity of the
federal judiciary.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the federal appeals court on
which Kavanaugh sat before his elevation to the Supreme Court, received dozens
of misconduct charges after he rebutted allegations of sexual misconduct before
the Judiciary Committee in September 2018. Critics say Kavanaugh’s testimony was
ridden with partisanship and perjury.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/05/01/theres-a-new-push-to-review-judicial-misconduct-complaints-against-brett-kavanaugh/
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