Brett Kavanaugh
US Supreme Court justice since 2018
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| 2023 | Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion in Reed v. Goertz, ruling that Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed could seek DNA testing on evidence in his case despite the state's statute of limitations on such testing. |
| 2023 | Kavanaugh wrote the opinion of the court in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, ruling that the plaintiffs could not sue to prevent the FDA's approval of the abortion pill mifepristone without demonstrating personal harm caused by the drug's availability. |
| 2023 | Doug Liman's documentary 'Justice' recounts the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, featuring testimonies from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez, and includes a never-before-heard audio recording of Max Stier corroborating allegations against Kavanaugh. |
| 2022 | Kavanaugh's home was the site of protests following the leak of a draft majority opinion for the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. |
| June 2022 | Kavanaugh voted with four other justices to completely overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. |
| June 2022 | Kavanaugh was the target of an assassination plot, as the suspect hoped to disrupt the rulings in Dobbs and Bruen. |
| June 8 2022 | Nicholas John Roske traveled from California to Brett Kavanaugh's home in Maryland with plans to murder Kavanaugh. After seeing U.S. marshals outside the residence, he turned himself in to police, expressing his dissatisfaction with a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion and the potential loosening of gun control laws. |
| January 2022 | Kavanaugh voted with the majority in a 5–4 decision to allow an execution to proceed in Alabama. |
| 2021 | Kavanaugh was part of the six justices who rejected the appeal of a Washington State florist who violated non-discrimination laws by refusing to sell floral arrangements to a same-sex couple. |
| 2021 | Kavanaugh joined the majority opinion in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, ruling in favor of a Catholic adoption agency that had been denied funding for not placing children with same-sex couples. |
| November 2021 | Kavanaugh voted with the majority of justices in a 6–3 decision to decline to hear an appeal from Mercy San Juan Medical Center, leaving in place a lower court ruling in favor of a transgender patient denied a hysterectomy on religious grounds. |
| September 2021 | Kavanaugh was part of the majority in a 5–4 vote where the Supreme Court declined an emergency petition to temporarily block the Texas Heartbeat Act, which bans nearly all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. |
| June 2021 | Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence in the Supreme Court case National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston, where the Court ruled unanimously that college sports were not exempt from antitrust law. In his remarks, he criticized the NCAA, describing it as 'a massive money-raising enterprise on the backs of student athletes who are not fairly compensated' and raised serious questions about other compensation rules. |
| 2020 | Eight days before the 2020 presidential election, Kavanaugh concurred that absentee votes properly cast in Wisconsin but received after November 3 must be discarded, joining the Court's conservatives in a ruling that requires deferral to state officials on elections. |
| 2020 | Kavanaugh sided with Roberts and three liberal justices in a 5–3 majority to allow a voting extension in North Carolina. |
| November 2020 | In November 2020, Brett Kavanaugh was reassigned to both the Sixth Circuit and the Eighth Circuit, after previously being assigned to the Seventh Circuit. |
| October 2020 | Kavanaugh agreed with the justices in an 'apparently unanimous' decision to deny an appeal by Kim Davis, a county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. |
| October 19 2020 | Brett Kavanaugh voted to grant a request for a stay that would have prevented ballots sent before Election Day but delivered within three days after it from being counted. |
| July 2020 | In July 2020, the Supreme Court, including Brett Kavanaugh, ruled in Trump v. Vance, allowing the Manhattan district attorney to access President Trump's tax records through a 7–2 decision. |
| June 2020 | In the case of Bostock v. Clayton County, the Supreme Court, with Kavanaugh dissenting, ruled 6–3 that workplace nondiscrimination protections in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protect individuals based on sexual orientation and gender identity. |
| June 29 2020 | In the case of June Medical Services L.L.C. v. Russo, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's requirement for abortion providers to hold hospital admitting privileges, with Kavanaugh dissenting from the majority opinion. |
| 2019 | He joined the faculty of George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School as a visiting professor and co-taught a summer course in Runnymede, England. |
| September 2019 | New York Times reporters published 'The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation', which included statements from Leland Ingham Keyser regarding her views on Ford's allegations. |
| February 2019 | Kavanaugh joined Chief Justice John Roberts and the court's liberal justices in the case Garza v. Idaho, which established that the Sixth Amendment's presumption of prejudice applies when an attorney does not file an appeal due to a signed appeal waiver in a plea agreement. |
| February 2019 | Kavanaugh voted with three conservative colleagues to reject a stay of a Louisiana law aimed at restricting abortion access and issued a separate dissenting opinion expressing an openness to reconsider the law's legality if warnings from abortion rights groups proved valid. |
| February 19 2019 | Kavanaugh joined Chief Justice John Roberts and the Court's four liberal justices in a 6–3 decision blocking the execution of a man with an 'intellectual disability' in Texas. |
| February 7 2019 | Brett Kavanaugh was part of the majority in a 5–4 decision rejecting a Muslim prisoner's request to delay his execution in order to have an imam present. |
| January 2019 | Following allegations of sexual misconduct against him, Kavanaugh voluntarily withdrew from teaching at Harvard Law School for the winter semester. |
| January 8 2019 | Brett Kavanaugh wrote his first Supreme Court opinion in the case Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc., resulting in a unanimous decision that reversed an appeals court opinion regarding arbitration in a contract dispute. |
| 2018 | Kavanaugh's reported salary as a federal judge was $220,600 and $27,000 as a lecturer at Harvard Law School. |
| 2018 | In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the en banc D.C. Circuit's judgment on a follow-up petition from the Solicitor General of the United States, and the girl's claim was ultimately dismissed as moot. |
| 2018 | The en banc D.C. Circuit reversed Kavanaugh's judgment regarding the CFPB by a vote of 7–3, over Kavanaugh's dissent. |
| December 2018 | A special federal panel of judges appointed by Chief Justice Roberts dismissed all ethics complaints against Brett Kavanaugh, stating that while the complaints were 'serious', lower court judges do not have the authority to investigate Supreme Court justices. |
| December 2018 | Brett Kavanaugh, serving as a swing vote, joined Chief Justice John Roberts and four liberal justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in declining to hear cases from Louisiana and Kansas that aimed to block women from receiving Medicaid-funded medical care at Planned Parenthood clinics. |
| October 9 2018 | Brett Kavanaugh began his tenure as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, hearing arguments for the cases Stokeling v. United States and United States v. Stitt. |
| October 8 2018 | A public swearing-in ceremony for Brett Kavanaugh was held at the White House. |
| October 6 2018 | The U.S. Senate confirmed Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Justice by a vote of 50–48. |
| October 6 2018 | Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as the 114th justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Constitutional Oath was administered by Chief Justice Roberts, and the Judicial Oath was administered by Justice Kennedy, whom Kavanaugh succeeded on the Court. |
| October 5 2018 | The Senate Judiciary Committee reported that it found 'no corroboration of the allegations' against Brett Kavanaugh. |
| October 5 2018 | The Senate voted 51–49 to invoke cloture on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination, advancing it to a final vote. |
| October 4 2018 | The White House announced that it found no corroboration of Ford's allegations against Kavanaugh after reviewing the FBI's investigation. |
| October 4 2018 | The FBI report on Brett Kavanaugh was transmitted from the White House to the Senate, where senators could review it one at a time in secrecy. |
| October 3 2018 | The FBI completed its supplemental investigation into Brett Kavanaugh, transmitting the report to the White House. |
| September 28 2018 | The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to advance Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the full Senate, conditioned on a one-week delay to allow for an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against him. |
| September 27 2018 | The committee held an additional day of public hearings to discuss allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh while in high school, where he and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, provided testimony. |
| September 26 2018 | Avenatti revealed Julie Swetnick as his client, who claimed in a sworn statement to have seen Kavanaugh and Mark Judge at numerous house parties where girls were allegedly made inebriated for gang rape. |
| September 23 2018 | An article by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer published in The New Yorker detailed a sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh by Deborah Ramirez, a former classmate from Yale University. Ramirez alleged that Kavanaugh exposed himself and thrust his penis against her face during a college party in the 1983–84 academic year. Kavanaugh denied the allegation, stating that it did not happen. |
| September 23 2018 | Attorney Michael Avenatti tweeted that he represented a woman, Julie Swetnick, who had 'credible information' about Brett Kavanaugh and was willing to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. |
| September 20 2018 | Ford's attorney initiated negotiations with the Senate Judiciary Committee to reschedule the hearing under conditions that would ensure her safety. |
| September 20 2018 | The Guardian reported on advice given by two Yale professors to female law students regarding their physical appearance and femininity in relation to securing a clerkship with Brett Kavanaugh. This led to significant scrutiny of Kavanaugh's hiring practices. |
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