He worked in the Bush Administration for 5 years as counsel to the president, and then as staff secretary to the president. He married Bush’s longtime personal secretary in 2004. He was put forth for his current judicial role in 2003, but was held up for three years and was confirmed in 2006. He has currently authored over 300 opinions on the DC Circuit.
His role in the Bush administration marks him as a conservative insider. Influential Bush-era figures like the American Conservative Union’s Matt Schlapp and others encouraged President Trump to nominate Kavanaugh, as well as numerous others in conservative legal circles. During his private practice, he chaired the Federalist Society’s Religious Liberties Practice Group, according to the Acton Institute. Nate Silver’s 538 Blog ranks his conservatism as being second only to Justice Thomas as the most conservative jurist.
According to one prominent measure of judicial ideology, Kavanaugh would fall to the right of Gorsuch and Justice Samuel Alito, and just to the left of the arch conservative Justice Clarence Thomas. https://t.co/hq65PTi0wU pic.twitter.com/88DroG6JWS
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) July 10, 2018
