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Feb 12, 1965 Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States 59 years old
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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About Brett Kavanaugh
- Brett Michael Kavanaugh (; born February 12, 1965) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- He was nominated by President Donald Trump to succeed Anthony Kennedy and took the oath of office on October 6, 2018.
- 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.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 become head of the Office of Independent Counsel, Kavanaugh assisted him with various investigations concerning President Bill Clinton, including the drafting of the Starr Report recommending 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.
- An evaluation of Kavanaugh's appellate court decisions in four separate public policy areas was performed by two law professors for the Washington Post.
- It found he had the most conservative overall voting record on the D.C.
- Court between 2003 and 2018.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.
- Two other women also accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.
- Kavanaugh denied all three accusations.
- The 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.
