These included cases involving In November 2011, Kavanaugh dissented when the D.C. She is Ford alleges that Kavanaugh and his friend locked her in a room and that Kavanaugh, who was drunk, held her down and tried to remove her clothes. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.
President Trump nominated Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court on July 9, 2018, to fill the position vacated by retiring Associate Justice After his Supreme Court clerkship, Kavanaugh again worked for Ken Starr until 1997 as an Associate Counsel in the Office of the After working in private practice in 1997–1998, he rejoined Starr as an Associate Counselor in 1998.In December 2000, Kavanaugh joined the legal team of From 1997 to 1998, Kavanaugh was a partner at the law firm of While Kavanaugh was at Kirkland & Ellis, he authored two When Kavanaugh has written an opinion and the case has been considered by the Supreme Court, that court has adopted his position thirteen times while reversing his position only once.
Politico reported at the time: “Kamala Harris rides Kavanaugh … All rights reserved. In December 2018, the judicial panel dismissed all 83 ethics complaints, acknowledging them as "serious" but nevertheless deciding that lower court judges have no authority to investigate Supreme Court justices.On October 6, the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court with a 50–48 vote.Kavanaugh was sworn in as the 114th Justice of the Supreme Court on the evening of October 6, 2018.Kavanaugh began his tenure as Supreme Court Justice on October 9, 2018, hearing arguments for Kavanaugh authored his first opinion on January 8, 2019, in the case of On February 27, Justice Kavanaugh joined Chief Justice Roberts and the court's liberal justices in In December 2018, as a swing vote, Kavanaugh joined Chief Justice In February 2019, Kavanaugh joined three of his conservative colleagues to vote to reject a request for a stay of a Louisiana law to restrict abortion.Also in February, Justice Kavanaugh was a part of the majority in decisions relating to the In July 2020, the Supreme Court ruled, in two 7-2 decisions, that the In early July 2018, Kavanaugh's name was on a shortlist of nominees for the Supreme Court. I’ve called for a House investigation into Kavanaugh. He was confirmed to the Supreme Court in October 2018. Sen. Kamala Harris formerly praised Christine Blasey Ford as a “true profile in courage” and aggressively questioned Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 regarding Ford’s allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her.The California senator, who is running alongside 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden, emphasized repeatedly during the Kavanaugh hearings in September 2018 that she believed Ford’s allegations and praised Ford for her courage.In another September 2019 tweet, she noted that it had been a year since Ford came before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying: “I believed her then and I believe it now: she is a true profile in courage.”Clips of Harris’ aggressive lines of questioning Kavanaugh went From Judge Kavanaugh confirmation hearing, Sen. Kamala Harris asks Judge Kavanaugh: “Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body?” After Ford went public with her allegations, Harris also questioned Kavanaugh “Ok, I’m going to take that as a no and we can move on,” Harris said, before asking him to explain why he believed that he was the victim of a conspiracy, comparing his background to Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, and asking him if he believed it was possible “for men to both be friends with some women and treat other women badly.”President Donald Trump called Harris’ treatment of Kavanaugh “extraordinarily nasty” following the announcement she had been tapped to run as vice president.
He was nominated by President Donald Trump on July 9, 2018 and has served since October 6, 2018.
And I won’t forget that soon.”Harris, a former prosecutor, expanded her profile back in 2018 with her grilling of Kavanaugh, who was left with a loss of words when Harris referred to abortion regulations.“Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body?” Harris asked at one point.The two went back and forth on the question before Kavanaugh eventually concluded, “I’m not aware of any right now, senator.”The former California attorney general also prodded Kavanaugh as to whether he agreed with Trump’s comments in response to the Charlottesville rally that Kavanaugh managed to dodge Harris on that question.