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Day 1 of Brett Kavanaugh Hearings: Documents Delayed and Documents Denied

Mikhaila Fogel Tue, Sep 4, 2018, 9:53 PM

A kerfuffle erupted in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday over the committee’s access to a series of documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time in the Bush White House. The conflict concerned the withholding of material under an implied assertion of executive privilege and the relevance of the documents in question. There are a few different caches of documents and different reasons why senators do not have access to them.

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Judge Brett Kavanaugh on National Security: A Reader’s Guide

Scott R. Anderson, Hayley Evans, Hilary Hurd Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 3:13 PM

The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin hearings Sept. 4 on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, Kavanaugh would replace the high court’s most frequent swing vote, retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, a change that many expect would shift the court significantly to the right.

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Kavanaugh and the Military Commissions: Reading the Law “As Written” for an Unpopular Defendant

Peter Margulies Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 3:15 PM

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s judicial record on the Guantanamo military commissions is richer and less one-sided than some analysts, including Steve Vladeck in the Washington Post, have suggested.

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Brett Kavanaugh and the Starr Report: How Our Office Drafted the Impeachment Referral

Stephen Bates Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 7:35 AM

Twenty years ago, Brett Kavanaugh and I were on the team that drafted Kenneth Starr’s impeachment referral. Here’s what the Supreme Court nominee did and did not do.

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Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #90: An Interview with Charlie Savage

Stewart Baker Wed, Nov 25, 2015, 7:14 AM

Our guest for episode 90 is Charlie Savage, New York Times reporter, talking about Power Wars, his monumental new book on the law and politics of terrorism in the Obama (and Bush) administrations.

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Judge Brett Kavanagh

U.S. Supreme Court

Day 1 of Brett Kavanaugh Hearings: Documents Delayed and Documents Denied

U.S. Supreme Court

Judge Brett Kavanaugh on National Security: A Reader’s Guide

Judge Brett Kavanagh

Kavanaugh and the Military Commissions: Reading the Law “As Written” for an Unpopular Defendant

U.S. Supreme Court

Brett Kavanaugh and the Starr Report: How Our Office Drafted the Impeachment Referral

The Cyberlaw Podcast

Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #90: An Interview with Charlie Savage

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