Nomination of the Honorable Brett M. Kavanaugh to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Nomination Hearing

Full Committee
Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Time: 09:30 AM
Location: Hart Senate Office Building 216
Presiding: Chairman Grassley
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Member Statements

  1. Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R - IA)
  2. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D - CA)
  3. Senator Patrick Leahy (D - VT)
  4. Senator Dick Durbin (D - IL)
  5. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D - MN)
  6. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI)
  7. Senator Chris Coons (D - DE)
  8. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D - CT)
  9. Senator Mazie Hirono (D - HI)
  10. Senator Kamala Harris (D - CA)

Witnesses

Introducers

  1. The Honorable Condoleezza Rice
    Former Secretary of State
    Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution
    Professor at Stanford University
    Stanford, CA
  2. The Honorable Rob Portman
    United States Senator
    State of Ohio
  3. Ms. Lisa S. Blatt
    Partner
    Arnold & Porter
    Washington , DC

Panel I

  1. The Honorable Brett M. Kavanaugh

Panel II

  1. Mr. Paul T. Moxley
    Chair
    American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary
    Salt lake City , UT
  2. Mr. John R. Tarpley
    Principal Evaluator
    American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary
    Nashville , TN

Panel III

  1. Majority
  2. Minority
  3. Mr. Luke McCloud
    Former Law Clerk
    Associate Williams & Connolly LLP
    Washington , DC
  4. Ms. Louisa Garry
    Teacher
    Friends Academy
    Locust Valley , NY
  5. The Honorable Theodore B. Olson
    Partner
    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
    Former Solicitor General
    United States Department of Justice
    Washington, DC
  6. Ms. Colleen E. Roh Sinzdak
    Former Student
    Senior Associate Hogan Lovells LLP
    Washington , DC
  7. Professor Akhil Amar
    Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science
    Yale Law School
    New Haven , CT
  8. The Honorable Cedric Richmond
    U.S. Representative, Louisiana, 2nd District
    Chairman, Congressional Black Caucus
  9. Ms. Rochelle Garza
    Managing Attorney
    Garza & Garza Law
    Brownsville , TX
  10. Ms. Elizabeth Weintraub
    Advocacy Specialist
    Association of University Centers on Disabilities
    Silver Spring , MD
  11. Ms. Alicia Baker
    Indianapolis , IN
  12. Professor Melissa Murray
    Professor of Law
    New York University School of Law
    New York , NY

Panel IV

  1. Minority
  2. Majority
  3. Mr. A.J. Kramer
    Federal Public Defender
    Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Columbia
    Washington , DC
  4. Ms. Rebecca Taibleson
    Former Law Clerk
    Foxpoint , WI
  5. Ms. Maureen E. Mahoney
    Former Deputy Solicitor General of the United States
    Washington , DC
  6. Mr. Kenneth Christmas
    Executive Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs
    Marvista Entertainment
    Los Angeles , CA
  7. Ms. Aalayah Eastmond
    Parkland , FL
  8. Mr. Jackson Corbin
    Hanover , PA
  9. Mr. Hunter Lachance
    Kennebunk , ME
  10. Ms. Melissa Smith
    Social Studies Teacher
    U.S. Grant Public High School
    Oklahoma City , OK

Panel V

  1. Majority
  2. Ms. Monica Mastal
    Real Estate Agent
    Washington , DC
  3. The Honorable Paul Clement
    Partner Kirkland & Ellis LLP
    Former Solicitor General United States Department of Justice
    Washington , DC
  4. Minority
  5. Professor Adam White
    Executive Director
    The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State Antonin Scalia Law School George Mason University
    Arlington , VA
  6. Professor Jennifer Mascott
    Former Law Clerk
    Assistant Professor of Law Antonin Scalia Law School George Mason University
    Arlington , VA
  7. Mr. John Dean
    Former Counsel to the President
    President Richard M. Nixon
  8. Professor Rebecca Ingber
    Associate Professor of Law
    Boston University School of Law
    Boston , MA
  9. Professor Lisa Heinzerling
    Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Professor of Law
    Georgetown University Law Center
    Washington , DC
  10. Professor Peter Shane
    Professor Law Moritz College of Law
    Ohio State University
    Columbus , OH