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Brett Kavanaugh with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, July 12, 2018. Shortly after being nominated, Kavanaugh began making courtesy visits to senators at their Capitol Hill offices. [57] [58] By the first week of August, Kavanaugh had met with 47 senators, all but one of them (Joe Manchin) Republican.
Brett Michael Kavanaugh (/ ˈ k æ v ə n ɔː /; born February 12, 1965) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on July 9, 2018, and has served since October 6, 2018.
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...
President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday he will not withdraw his nomination.
If Kavanaugh is confirmed by the Senate in a vote planned on Saturday, Trump will have succeeded in placing his second justice on the top U.S. court and fulfilled his pledge to solidify its ...
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., a center-right Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said he’s as “excited as you can be with the blood sport of SCOTUS nominations today” about “potentially ...
Kavanaugh was officially nominated on July 9, selected from among a list of "25 highly qualified potential nominees" considered by the Trump Administration. [31] [32] Kavanaugh's nomination was officially sent to the Senate on July 10, 2018, and confirmation hearings began on September 4. The hearings took longer than initially expected over ...
WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - A woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, of sexual misconduct decades ago is willing to publicly testify before ...