https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nuclear-option-why-trumps-supreme-court-pick-needs-only-51-votes-in-the-senate/
Orrin Hatch said he knew
>https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/4848
Brett Kavanaugh
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As a Circuit Judge, Brett Kavanaugh was one of the staunchest critics of President Obama's environmental rules efforts to combat climate change and he authored an opinion<http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/08/21/judge-kavanaugh-hits-epa-again/that struck down the EPA's cross-state air pollution rule.
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Throughout his career, Kavanaugh has used his judicial authority to increase the influence of money in politics. In 2009, he authored an opinion<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/us/politics/19donate.htmlthat ruled that the government can't restrict political spending by nonprofit groups or political committees. In addition, Kavanaugh authored an opinion<https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/court-approves-south-carolina-voter-id-law-for-2013/2012/10/10/ac7108c4-130f-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_story.html> that upheld South Carolina's restrictive voter ID law.
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Kavanaugh has argued<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/03/26/holding-courtthat a president may refuse to enforce a law if he or she personally deems that law unconstitutional, even if the Supreme Court has previously upheld it. should have the authority to decline<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/03/26/holding-court> to enforce a statute that regulates private individuals when the president deems the statute unconstitutional, even if a court has held or would hold the statute constitutional.
Where Brett Kavanaugh sits on the ideological spectrum
https://www.axios.com/brett-kavanaugh-conservative-ideological-political-views-9d009f84-0e0a-4ebf-ac82-084489a108f2.html