Oppose the Confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States
On behalf of
The fact that
Furthermore, there should be no hearing for
The chairman's politicized, heavy-handed decision to request none of
The
Moreover,
The confirmation process for
Sought to Undermine Access to Health Care: Access to health care is a civil and human rights issue of profound importance. Based on his known record and the process by which he was selected, if confirmed to the
In Priests for Life v.
In Sissel v.
Hostile to Women's Reproductive Freedom:
A recent op-ed from one of
Restricted Voting Rights: In two voting rights cases,
In addition to filing a brief in Rice v. Cayetano,
Opposed Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action: In a 1999 Christian Science Monitor interview,
Dismissive of Discrimination Claims:
In Miller v. Clinton,(31) the majority held that the
And in Rattigan v. Holder,(34) the majority ruled that an African-American
Hostile to Workers' Rights:
In
In
Disregard for Disability Rights: In 2007,
Anti-Immigrant Views: In his ruling discussed above in Garza v. Hargan (involving
In Agri Processor v.
In another immigration case,
Troubling Views on
It is also important to note
An email released recently by the
Undermined Environmental Protections: During his 12 years on the bench,
In
In
In addition to his anti-environmental rulings,
Opposed to Common-Sense Gun Safety Laws: After the
Pro-Government Bias in Criminal Cases:
And in Roth v.
Troubling Views on Money in Politics:
Sought to Undermine Church-State Separation in Education: As an attorney in private practice,
In
Ideological Jobs and Affiliations:
Ties to
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Footnotes:
(1) https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/archives-staff-release-records-related-to-judge-kavanaugh.
(2) https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2010/06/15/senate-section/article/S4928-1.
(3) https://law.marquette.edu/assets/marquette-lawyers/pdf/marquette-lawyer/2016-fall/2016-fall-p08.pdf.
(4) See, e.g., https://civilrights.org/opposition-to-kavanaughs-confirmation-to-the-dc-circuit/.
(5) https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/full-transcript-third-2016-presidential-debate-230063.
(7) 661 F.3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2011), abrogated by Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. Sebelius,
(8) Id. at 51-52 (Kavanaugh, J., dissenting).
(9) Id. at 50 (Kavanaugh, J., dissenting).
(10) 808 F.3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2015).
(11) Id. at 18 (Kavanaugh, J., dissenting).
(12) 799 F.3d 1035 (D.C. Cir. 2015).
(13) 874 F.3d 735 (D.C. Cir. 2017) (en banc).
(14) No. 17-5236, 2017 WL 4707112 (D.C. Cir.
(15) Id. at 738 (
(16)
(17) http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/From-the-Bench.pdf.
(19) Id.
(20) 898 F. Supp. 2d 30 (D.D.C. 2012).
(21) https://www.thenation.com/article/63756-reasons-why-racism-is-still-alive-in-south-carolina/.
(22) 898 F. Supp. 2d 30, 53-54 (D.D.C. 2012) (Bates, J., concurring).
(23)
(24) Id. at 529 (Stevens, J., dissenting).
(25) http://www.un-documents.net/a61r295.htm.
(26)
(27) Id.
(28)
(29) http://civilrightsdocs.info/pdf/judicial-nominations/2018/SCOTUSdocs/Pages%20from%2008-09-18%20GWB%20Document%20Production%20%28Set%201%2C%20Pages%2010%2C001-20%2C000%29.pdf.
(30) 720 F.3d 939 (D.C. Cir. 2013).
(31) 687 F.3d 1332 (D.C. Cir. 2012).
(32) Id. at 1335.
(33) Id. at 1357 (Kavanaugh, J., dissenting).
(34) 689 F.3d 764 (D.C. Cir. 2012).
(35) Id. at 770 (internal quotations and citation omitted).
(36) 748 F.3d 1202 (D.C. Cir. 2014).
(37) Id. at 1217 (Kavanaugh, J., dissenting).
(38) http://jordanbarab.com/confinedspace/2018/07/10/kavanaugh-threat-to-osha-workers/.
(39) 865 F.3d 740 (D.C. Cir. 2017).
(40) 681 F.3d 483 (D.C. Cir. 2012).
(41) Id. at 489 n.5.
(42) 486 F.3d 1316 (D.C. Cir. 2007).
(43) Id. at 1331 (Tatel, J., dissenting in part).
(44) 489 F.3d 376 (D.C. Cir. 2007).
(45) Id. at 382.
(46) http://www.bazelon.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Kavanaugh-letter-SJC-cc-full-Senate.pdf.
(48) 514 F.3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2008).
(49) Id. at 4.
(50) Id. at 7.
(51) https://onlabor.org/the-kavanaugh-nomination-and-labor/.
(52) 769 F.3d 1127 (D.C. Cir. 2014).
(53) Id. at 1150.
(54) http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Kavanaugh_MLR.pdf.
(56) https://www.c-span.org/video/?407491-1/discussion-politics-supreme-court.
(58) Id.
(59) https://www.c-span.org/video/?101056-1/independent-counsel-statute-future.
(60) http://prospect.org/article/here%E2%80%99s-how-democrats-can-expose-what-kavanaugh-threatens.
(61) 839 F.3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2016), vacated and remanded,
(62) Id. at 5.
(63) Id. at 6.
(64) 881 F.3d at 77.
(65) 473 F.3d 345, 357 (D.C. Cir. 2007) (Kavanaugh, J., dissenting).
(67) http://voices.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/pushing_the_envelope_on_presi/.
(68) https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/07/12/2018/executive-business-meeting.
(69) http://civilrightsdocs.info/pdf/judicial-nominations/2018/000000005A63763B7FAFE24BBC40FF72993DC146A4462500.eml_RV.pdf.
(70) Id.
(71) 696 F.3d 7 (D.C. Cir. 2012).
(72) 134 S. Ct. 1584 (2014).
(73) 614 F.3d 544 (D.C. Cir. 2010).
(74) Id. at 553.
(75) 866 F.3d 451 (D.C. Cir. 2017).
(76) https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=3075&context=dlj.
(77) https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4733&context=ndlr.
(78) http://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2118-2163-Online.pdf.
(79) 670 F.3d 1244 (D.C. Cir. 2011).
(80) Id. at 1269 (Kavanaugh, J., dissenting).
(81) https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/full-transcript-third-2016-presidential-debate-230063.
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