Supreme Court Nominee Kavanaugh’s Responses Reveal Views

The following article by Todd Ruger was posted on the Roll Call website July 23, 2018:

Questionnaire part of confirmation process

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, right, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, conduct a photo-op in Russell Building before a meeting on July 17. Credit: Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh described his volunteer work, his most important decisions and how President Donald Trump picked him in paperwork submitted as part of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation process.

The questionnaire is a standard part of the confirmation process, and nominees can use it to bolster their case. For instance, Kavanaugh, when asked to list his 10 most important decisions, listed nine cases in which the Supreme Court later agreed with the positions he took as a federal appeals court judge.

Kavanaugh included the 10th case, he said, “because of what it says about anti-discrimination law and American history.” It was his concurring opinion in a 2013 workplace discrimination case, and he told the committee he wrote that “calling someone the n-word, even once, creates a hostile work environment.”

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