In 1987 Brett studied at Yale University. He received a degree of the Bachelor of Arts.
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In 1990 Brett studied at Yale Law School. He became a Juris Doctor.
Career
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (L) and Judge Brett Kavanaugh pose for photographs before a meeting in McConnell's office in the U.S. Capitol.
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Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) pose for photographs before a meeting in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.
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Kavanaugh and his family with President Donald Trump.
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Kavanaugh sworn in by Justice Kennedy as President Bush and Kavanaugh's wife, Ashley, look on.
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Kavanaugh with President George W. Bush and other White House staffers. Kavanaugh seated directly to the left of President Bush.
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From 2008 to 2015 Brett worked as a professor at Harvard Law School.
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In 1990 Brett studied at Yale Law School. He became a Juris Doctor.
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In 2007 Brett worked as a professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (L) and Judge Brett Kavanaugh pose for photographs before a meeting in McConnell's office in the U.S. Capitol.
United States Supreme Court (Front L-R) Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Jr., (Back L-R) Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Elena Kagan and Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh pose for their official portrait at the in the East Conference Room at the Supreme Court building.
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh embraces his wife Ashley Kavanaugh after his ceremonial swearing-in in the East Room of the White House.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump, and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy walk into the East Room of the White House for Kavanaugh's ceremonial swearing-in.
Elizabeth Warren and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh look on during the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh listens to a discussion between Economic Club President David Rubenstein and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver about the state of the NBA and professional sports during an event hosted by the Economic Club at the Capitol Hilton.
Brett Kavanaugh is an American Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Mr. Kavanaugh previously was White House Staff Secretary during the presidency of George W. Bush.
Background
Mr. Kavanaugh was born in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, on February 12, 1965, raised in Bethesda, Maryland. He is the son of Martha Gamble (Murphy) and Everett Edward Kavanaugh Jr. His mother was a history teacher at Woodson and McKinley high schools in Washington in the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her law degree from Washington College of Law in 1978 and served as a Maryland state Circuit Court Judge from 1995 to 2001. Mr. Kavanaugh's father was the president of the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association for two decades.
Education
Brett Kavanaugh was educated at the Jesuit university-preparatory school named Georgetown Preparatory School, where he was two years senior to Neil Gorsuch, future-Justice. Mr. Kavanaugh then graduated from Yale College (now Yale University), obtaining his Bachelor of Arts in 1987. He began his rapid ascent in the legal world following his graduation with Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1990.
Judge Kavanaugh previously clerked for Judge Walter Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1990-1991 and for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit between 1991 and 1992. In 1992-1993 he was an attorney in the Office of the Solicitor General of the United States. In the October Term 1993, Brett Kavanaugh served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. From 1994 to 1997 and for a period in 1998, Judge Kavanaugh was Associate Counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr. Mr. Kavanaugh was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1997 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2001.
From 2001 to 2003, he acted as an associate counsel and then Senior Associate Counsel to the President. Before his appointment to the Court, Brett Kavanaugh served for more than five years in the White House for President George W. Bush. From July 2003 until May 2006, he was assistant to the President and Staff Secretary to the President.
Since joining the Court, Mr. Kavanaugh has taught full-term courses on Separation of Powers at Harvard Law School each year from 2008 to 2015, on the Supreme Court at Harvard Law School (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018), on National Security and Foreign Relations Law at Yale Law School (2011), and on Constitutional Interpretation at Georgetown University Law Center (2007). He has been named the Samuel Williston lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School since 2009. He has published in the Yale Law Journal, the Georgetown Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Catholic University Law Review, the Marquette Lawyer, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Lawfare, among other publications. Before joining the bench, Judge Kavanaugh argued cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Fifth Circuits, and other federal and state courts.
On July 2, 2018, Brett Kavanaugh was one of four U.S. Court of Appeals judges to receive a personal 45-minute interview by President Donald Trump as a potential replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy. On July 9, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Mr. Kavanaugh for a seat on the Supreme Court.
Brett Kavanaugh is a Catholic and serves as a regular lector at his Washington, District of Columbia, church, the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament. He has helped serve meals to the homeless as part of church programs and has tutored at the Washington Jesuit Academy, a Catholic private school in the District of Columbia.
Politics
Brett Kavanaugh is a member of the Republican Party of the United States. On questions of abortion, Kavanaugh criticized the majority for creating "a new right for unlawful immigrant minors in U.S. government detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand."
Kavanaugh dissented when the circuit found that the Constitution's Appointments Clause did not prevent the Sarbanes-Oxley Act from creating a board whose members were not directly removable by the President. He found that those directly regulated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) could challenge the constitutionality of its design. So he wrote for a divided panel finding that the CFPB's design was unconstitutional, and made the CFPB Director removable by the President of the United States.
In 2014, Brett Kavanaugh concurred in the judgment when the en banc D.C. Circuit found that the Free Speech Clause did not forbid the government from requiring meatpackers to include a country of origin label on their products.
Moreover, according to his point of view, attaching a Global Positioning System tracking device to a vehicle violated the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
On questions of the Second Amendment and gun ownership, Kavanaugh believed that new gun control measures enacted in 2008 violated the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Views
Quotations:
"My law clerks come from diverse background and points of views."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
Membership
Judge Kavanaugh is a member of the American Law Institute, the Lawyers Club of Washington, the John Carroll Society, and the Federalist Society.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
Donald Trump: "Kavanaugh has the most robust view of presidential powers and immunities."
Connections
Brett Kavanaugh had his first date with his future wife Ashley Estes, then-personal secretary to President George W. Bush, on September 10, 2001.