He and Gorsuch served together as law clerks for Kennedy Kavanaugh worked for President George H.W. He went on to Yale College and Yale Law School. It would be the height of folly to expect that, having attained his lifetime’s ambition of a seat on the Supreme Court, he will become anything else.Ī product of the District and its affluent Maryland suburbs, Kavanaugh attended Georgetown Prep with another D.C.
Kavanaugh has been the creature and servant of political power all his days. Kennedy’s roots lay in his days of small-town private practice he made his way to the bench from private practice, and, as a judge, he was conservative but independent. Though Kavanaugh served as Kennedy’s law clerk during the October 1993 term, the contrast between the two men could hardly be more complete. Not since Warren Harding in 1921 nominated former President William Howard Taft to be chief justice has the country been presented with a high court nominee so completely shaped by the needs and mores of the executive branch as Brett Kavanaugh, unveiled Monday night as President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.
