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Thursday, April 16, 2026
Justice Sonia Sotomayor apologizes for swipe at Kavanaugh - POLITICO
“At a recent appearance … I referred to a disagreement with one of my colleagues in a prior case, but I made remarks that were inappropriate,” Sotomayor wrote. “I regret my hurtful comments. I have apologized to my colleague.”…
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Monster of 2025: Kavanaugh Stops – Mother Jones
The opinion argued that the administration's decision to use race as one proxy for immigration status likely didn't run afoul of the Fourth Amendment or the court's precedents. But, to make these arguments, his concurrence contradicted both daily news reports and the evidence in the very case he was ruling on. Boldly, Kavanaugh let neither the law nor the truth stop him from writing many stupid sentences defending the indefensible...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/monster-of-2025-kavanaugh-stops/
Saturday, June 28, 2025
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Thursday, October 10, 2024
Sen. Whitehouse & Lawrence Discuss Bombshell Report Slamming FBI Investigation
October 8 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, today released a report detailing disturbing shortcomings in the supplemental background investigation conducted after allegations of sexual misconduct emerged during the 2018 confirmation process of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Whitehouse’s report is the culmination of a six-year-long investigation hindered by executive branch obstruction, particularly during the Trump Administration.
The full report is available here:
The four key findings of Whitehouse’s years-long investigation into this episode are:
• The supplemental background investigation was completely controlled by the Trump White House. The FBI was never given “free rein” to conduct a thorough, complete investigation. Statements to the contrary from former President Trump and White House and Department of Justice officials were false.
• Trump White House and FBI assertions that the Kavanaugh supplemental background investigation was conducted “by the book” according to standard FBI procedures were false and misleading, failing to disclose that there are no standard procedures for supplemental background investigations. Instead, FBI practice, which the Trump Administration never disclosed, requires step-by-step instructions from the White House. This practice may be appropriate for handling many routine, minor questions that can arise after an initial background investigation, but it was uniquely inappropriate for investigating the serious, high-profile allegations against Kavanaugh.
• The investigation was directed by the Trump White House to pursue only first-hand evidence and not corroborating evidence. Senate Republicans then cited the absence of corroborating evidence to justify confirming Kavanaugh.
• The FBI’s public “tip line” investigation was a fake. No tip was ever investigated; Kavanaugh-related tips were delivered straight to the Trump White House without FBI investigation. Indeed, the Trump White House could have used tip line information to steer FBI investigators away from derogatory evidence.
Friday, July 5, 2024
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Revealed: Senate investigation into Brett Kavanaugh assault claims contained serious omissions | Brett Kavanaugh | The Guardian
The FBI was at the time involved in its own review of sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh. The investigation, conducted under FBI director Christopher Wray, another Yale graduate, has widely been derided as a "sham" by Democrats led by the Rhode Island senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a member of the Senate judiciary committee.
Whitehouse's office is expected to release a report into the FBI's handling of the Kavanaugh investigation by the end of this year...
Sunday, January 22, 2023
New Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Allegations in Secret Sundance Doc ‘Justice’
Stier relays that he lived in the same Yale dorm as Kavanaugh and, one evening, wound up in a room where he saw a severely inebriated Kavanaugh with his pants down, at which point a group of rowdy soccer players forced a drunk female freshman to hold Kavanaugh's penis. Stier states that he knows this tale "first-hand," and that the young woman in question did not subsequently remember the incident, nor did she want to come forward after she'd seen the vile treatment that Ford and Ramirez were subjected to by the public, the media, and the government…
‘I hope this triggers outrage’: surprise Brett Kavanaugh documentary premieres at Sundance | Sundance 2023 | The Guardian
"I do hope this triggers outrage," said producer Amy Herdy in a Q&A after the premiere in Park City, Utah. "I do hope that this triggers action, I do hope that this triggers additional investigation with real subpoena powers."
The film provides a timeline of the allegations, initially that Kavanaugh was accused by Christine Blasey Ford of sexual assault when she was 15 and he 17. She alleged that he held her down on a bed and groped her, and tried to rip her clothes off before she got away. Kavanaugh was also accused of sexual misconduct by Deborah Ramirez, who alleged that he exposed himself and thrust his penis at her face without her consent at a college party.
Kavanaugh denies the allegations. He turned down requests to take part in the documentary...
Friday, September 16, 2022
Roberts and Kavanaugh issue a surprise warning shot to conservative lawyers.
Why did Roberts and Kavanaugh draw the line here? Presumably they could not bring themselves to sanction such an egregious abuse of the shadow docket. The chief justice has, to his credit, already expressed dismay over the ultraconservative majority's freewheeling use of emergency orders to reshape the law. Kavanaugh is the surprise here: He's usually part of the problem, but cast the key vote to stop his colleagues from indulging Becket's extravagant demands...
Monday, June 27, 2022
Roe v Wade: senators say Trump supreme court nominees misled them | Roe v Wade | The Guardian
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the lone Democrat to back Kavanaugh, voiced similar sentiments. "I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v Wade was settled legal precedent and I am alarmed they chose to reject the stability the ruling has provided for two generations of Americans," the Times reported him saying...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Coach Kennedy at the Supreme Court: Brett Kavanaugh’s question cut through the lies.
…in case after case, the Supreme Court has held that public schools violate the establishment clause when they coerce students into prayer. Even when that coercion is "subtle and indirect," it "can be as real as any overt compulsion," especially for students…
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/04/coach-kennedy-supreme-court-kavanaugh-school-prayer.html
Sunday, March 27, 2022
The Supreme Court splits on whether Joe Biden is commander-in-chief - Vox
…As Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained in a brief opinion laying out why the lower court erred, this court "in effect inserted itself into the Navy's chain of command, overriding military commanders' professional military judgments." Had the Court ruled the other way in SEALs, it would have effectively placed itself at the apex of the military's chain of command, displacing Biden as commander-in-chief.
But as Kavanaugh correctly notes in his concurring opinion, there is a long line of Supreme Court precedents establishing that courts should be exceedingly reluctant to interfere with military affairs…:format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/70673597/1237979113.0.jpg)
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Opinion | Republicans boast they have not pulled a Kavanaugh. In fact, they’ve treated Jackson worse. - The Washington Post
…Republicans have smeared Judge Jackson based on obvious distortions of her record and the law. Mr. Graham and others painted her as a friend of child pornographers, despite the fact that her sentences in their cases reflect the judicial mainstream. Even conservative outlets had debunked these accusations before the hearings began. The more Judge Jackson argued for rationality in criminal sentencing — or attempted to, as Mr. Graham continually interrupted her — the Mr. Graham ranted about the evils of child pornography, which Judge Jackson had already condemned repeatedly and her record plainly shows she takes seriously...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Opinion | What Brett Kavanaugh Didn’t Mention when He Talked About Reversing Roe - POLITICO
Yes, the court has ignored precedent before, but never to take away a constitutional right...
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
The False Democratic Promise of Returning Abortion to the States - The Atlantic
…In many competitive states, it would be impossible to gerrymander a Democratic majority that would withstand nearly any voter backlash, but fairly easy to gerrymander a lopsided Republican one. And that's just what Republicans in many states have done. In Wisconsin in 2018, for example, Republicans lost the popular vote by more than eight percentage points, yet won more than 60 percent of the assembly seats…
Saturday, December 4, 2021
Kavanaugh cites landmark gay rights cases in argument about abortion restrictions
"Those landmark LGBTQ decisions EXPANDED individual liberty, not the opposite."
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/kavanaugh-cites-landmark-gay-rights-cases-argument-abortion-restrictio-rcna7404
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/kavanaugh-cites-landmark-gay-rights-cases-argument-abortion-restrictio-rcna7404
Thursday, September 16, 2021
FBI director faces new scrutiny over investigation of Brett Kavanaugh
…Wray is likely to face scrutiny on why information that was specific to the allegations of sexual misconduct was not fully explored, including evidence that was reportedly offered to investigators by an alleged witness named Max Stier, an attorney and former classmate of Ramirez, who reportedly notified senators that he had witnessed an event similar to the one recounted by Ramirez...
Friday, July 23, 2021
FBI failed to fully investigate Kavanaugh allegations, say Democrats
Whitehouse had in March of this year asked the attorney general, Merrick Garland, to help facilitate "proper oversight" by the Senate into questions about how thoroughly the FBI investigated Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing and said he was seeking answers about "how, why, and at whose behest" the FBI conducted a "fake" investigation.
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