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Brett Michael Kavanaugh (born February 12, 1965) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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It may not be our job to impose sanctions on him, but it is our job to make his pattern of revolting behavior clear — piece by painful piece. Aren’t we failing to fulfill our duty to the American people if we willingly ‘conspire’ with the president in an effort to conceal the true nature of his acts?

– Brett Kavanaugh

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I will not criticize the political branches, after all, they speak for the people, and that commands a certain degree of humility from those of us in the judicial branch, who do not.

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Found on CNN 18 days ago Politics

Equal justice under law requires a criminal trial free of racial discrimination in the jury selection process.

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Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

My legacy is secure.

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Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

In sum, this court's stay in Murphy's case was appropriate, and the stay facilitated a prompt fix to the religious equality problem in Texas' execution protocol.

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Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

That is why we have antitrust law, the case challenged the fact that Apple charges a high commission to app developers, which indirectly harms consumers, Supreme Court held that because consumers interface directly with Apple they could sue.

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Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

As we all know, in the United States political system of the early 2000s, what goes around comes around.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Chief Justice Roberts is a principled, independent and inspiring leader for the American judiciary, as a country, we are fortunate to have John Roberts as chief justice of the United States.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Congress knew it wouldn't be immediate, and yet Congress did not put in a time limit, that raises a real question for me whether we should be superimposing a time limit into the statute when Congress, at least as I read it, did not itself do so.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The Senate confirmation process was contentious and emotional, the Senate confirmation process is over. My focus now is to be the best justice I can be.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President President Donald Trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the Clintons and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Heidi made her decision, I'll make mine.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Crazy stuff. Gangs, illegitimate children, fights on boats in Rhode Island, all nonsense, reported breathlessly and often uncritically by the media.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I was not in Newport, haven't been on a boat in Newport. Not with Mark Judge on a boat, nor all those three things combined. This is just completely made up, or at least not me.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

But when individuals provide fabricated allegations to The Senate Judiciary Committee, diverting The Senate Judiciary Committee resources during time-sensitive investigations, The Senate Judiciary Committee materially impedes our work.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the Clintons and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Throughout this process, I’ve been interviewed by the FBI, I’ve done a number of' background' calls directly with the The Senate, and yesterday, I answered questions under oath about every topic the senators and their counsel asked me, i’ve done everything they have requested and will continue to cooperate.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

This confirmation process has become a national disgrace, yes ! Yes !

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Sorry I did that, this is a tough process. I'm sorry about that.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Drinking game, three glasses in a triangle.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Three glasses in a triangle.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

For 12 years, everyone who has appeared before me on the D.C. Circuit has praised my judicial temperament, that's why I have the unanimous, well qualified rating from The American Bar Association.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I only say this : 36 years, no charge, no nothing.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

No, and we're dealing with an anonymous letter about an anonymous person and an anonymous friend, it's ridiculous. Total Twilight Zone. And no, I've never done anything like that.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

, } Accusers do not tend to fare well in word-on-word clashes. As I have described, skepticism of sexual violence complaints has shape-shifted over time. Yet it remains firmly lodged. The staying power of credibility discounting is a notable feature — perhaps even the dominant feature — of our response to rape.This may be changing. The #MeToo movement is challenging a societal default to doubt, and the past year has brought undeniable progress. Yet even as sexual misconduct complaints are met with newfound receptivity, it is worth noting that lone accusers continue to bear a special burden. ( It seems unlikely that Senate Republicans will ask the FBI to investigate two other accusers' reports against Brett Kavanaugh, or even that they will be asked to testify before Senate Judiciary Committee.) Many survivors of sexual violence are deterred by the likelihood of a swearing contest. But Ford — in the face of death threats — has agreed to appear before Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate Republicans walks into a.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I am here this morning to answer these allegations and to tell the truth, and the truth is that I have never sexually assaulted anyone – not in high school, not in college, not ever.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

What I’ve been accused of is far more serious than juvenile misbehavior, i never did anything remotely resembling what Christine Blasey Ford describes.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

I want a fair process where I can defend my integrity. I know I'm telling the truth. I know my lifelong record. I'm not going to let false accusations drive me out of this process, i have faith in God and I have faith in the fairness of the American people.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I did not have sexual intercourse or anything close to sexual intercourse in high school or for many years thereafter.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The truth is I've never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or otherwise.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Fox News earlier's totally false and outrageous, i have never done any such thing, known about any such thing. When I was in high school, and I went to an all-boys Catholic high school where I was focused on academics and athletics and going to church every Sunday at Little Flower and working on my service projects and friendships.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I don't think Brett Kavanaugh would flash Brett Kavanaugh to Debbie, or anyone, for that matter.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I'm going to concentrate in the next three days, today, Thursday and Friday, as long as I can, we've got to have time to plan for a hearing and it's going to come off -- there's a certain time we have to notify people that there is going to be a hearing.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I have never done anything like what the accuser describes – to her or to anyone, because this never happened, I had no idea who was making this accusation until she identified herself yesterday.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Opinion

I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Everyone in the group paid me for their tickets based on the cost of the tickets, to the dollar, no one overpaid or underpaid me for tickets. No loans were given in either direction.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Over the years, we have sunk a decent amount of money into our home for sometimes unanticipated repairs and improvements.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

That was a group that was being forced to provide certain kind of health coverage over their religious objection to their employees, and under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the question was first, was this a substantial burden on the religious exercise ? And Religious Freedom Restoration Act seemed to me quite clearly Religious Freedom Restoration Act was.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We would usually divide the tickets in a ‘ticket draft’ at my house. Everyone in the group paid me for their tickets based on the cost of the tickets, to the dollar. No one overpaid or underpaid me for tickets. No loans were given in either direction.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

I know nominees who've sat in this chair in the past have expressed the desire for cameras in the courtroom, only to get to the Supreme Court and change their positions fairly rapidly, so that gives me some humility about making confident assertions about that.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

That was a group that was being forced to provide certain kind of health coverage over their religious objection to their employees. And under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the question was first, was this a substantial burden on the religious exercise ? And Religious Freedom Restoration Act seemed to me quite clearly Religious Freedom Restoration Act was, religious Freedom Restoration Act was a technical matter of filling out a form in that case.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I don't recall any conversations of that kind with anyone at that law firm, i haven't had any inappropriate conversations about that investigation with anyone.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The answer is no.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Did you find it all unusual to receive a draft letter from Democratic senators to each other before any mention of it was made public?

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

No one is above the law in our constitutional system.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The question of self pardons is something I have never analyzed, it is a question I have not written about, it's a question therefore that is a hypothetical question that I can not begin to answer in this context as a sitting judge and as a nominee to Supreme Court.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I don't think we want judges commenting on the latest political controversy, because that would ultimately lead the people to doubt whether we're independent or whether we're politicians in robes, and so maintaining that strict independence of the judiciary requires me, I think, to avoid commenting on any current events.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I am not here to assess comments made in the political arena, because the risk is I'll be drawn into the political arena.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I don't live in a bubble. I understand. I live in the real world. I understand the importance of the issue.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

That's what makes people sick.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

As I’ve said before, [Garland is] a great judge – a great chief judge – and he’s very careful and very hardworking, and we work well together and try to read the statute as written, read the precedent as written, he’s a judge – like I try to be as well – a judge who’s not trying to impose any personal preferences onto the decision but take the law as written, and that’s what I’ve tried to do in those cases and that probably explains some of that.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

A good judge must be an umpire – a neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no litigant or policy, i don’t decide cases based on personal or policy preferences. I am not a pro-plaintiff or pro-defendant judge. I am not a pro-prosecution or pro-defense judge. I am a pro-law judge.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Opinion

The Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution, the justices on the Supreme Court do not sit on opposite sides of an aisle. They do not caucus in separate rooms. If confirmed to the court, I would be part of a team of nine, committed to deciding cases according to the Constitution and laws of the United States.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Opinion

I live on the sunny side of the mountain.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Senator, I did not -- I was not involved and am not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants or -- and so I do not have the involvement with that, and with respect to Mr. Haynes' nomination, I've -- I know Jim Haynes, but it was not one of the nominations that I handled.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The next morning, I was a few steps behind her as the Secret Service shouted at all of us to sprint out the front gates of the White House, because there was an inbound plane.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The two ultimately got linked in the same bill.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

President Trump's decision to step in at the last moment and hide 100,000 pages of Judge Kavanaugh records from the American public is not only unprecedented in the history of Supreme Court nominations, it has all the makings of a cover up.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

The rationale for candidate contribution limits is that they prevent corruption -- if Brett Kavanaugh were to oppose contribution limits, Brett Kavanaugh would be willing to open the door to massive corruption of our elected officials.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

In our constitutional system, a judge must be independent, must keep an open mind in every case and must decide cases based on the facts and the law, not based on personal or policy views.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Even the lesser burdens of a criminal investigation – including preparing for questioning by criminal investigators – are time-consuming and distracting. Like civil suits, criminal investigations take the President’s focus away from his or Paula Jones responsibilities to the people, and a President who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as President.

– Brett Kavanaugh

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

Looking back to the late 1990s, for example, the nation certainly 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.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

My law clerks come from diverse background and points of views.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Sources said at the time they believed opposition from the left was fueled by concerns that Brett Kavanaugh could one day have a seat on Supreme Court. I consider myself a Republican, I am a supporter of President President Bush.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics