The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin questioning Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, on Tuesday. His views on civil rights will be a particularly hot topic of conversation.
In June 2003, Kavanaugh was a White House attorney. He was the first to warn President George W. Bush that the U.S. Supreme Court was going to rule on a case involving affirmative action. The court ruled that the University of Michigan could use race as a factor in its admission decisions. Bush and Kavanaugh both believed that race shouldn’t be a consideration. Kavanaugh helped write the White House response. It read, “We must be ever mindful not to use means that create another wrong and thus perpetuate our divisions in the pursuit of diversity.”
Opposition to Kavanaugh
Some fear how Kavanaugh might sway the court as a justice. One such person is Janai Nelson, the associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. On Thursday, she spoke for the NAACP opposing Kavanaugh’s nomination.
