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Much of the criticism of Kavanaugh is bizarre.  For example, some claim that because Kavanaugh married a woman who once worked as a secretary to President [[George W. Bush]], Kavanaugh is therefore somehow part of the Bush network.  Another criticism, coming primarily from [[dark money]] types, relates to Kavanaugh's ruling that upheld the constitutionality of limits on contributions to political parties in ''Republican Nat'l Comm. v. FEC'', 698 F. Supp. 2d 150 (D.D.C. 2010).<ref>[http://www.onecitizenspeaking.com/2018/07/supreme-court-is-bret-kavanaugh-part-of-a-bush-trump-deal.html SUPREME COURT: IS BRET KAVANAUGH PART OF A BUSH-TRUMP DEAL?]</ref>
 
Much of the criticism of Kavanaugh is bizarre.  For example, some claim that because Kavanaugh married a woman who once worked as a secretary to President [[George W. Bush]], Kavanaugh is therefore somehow part of the Bush network.  Another criticism, coming primarily from [[dark money]] types, relates to Kavanaugh's ruling that upheld the constitutionality of limits on contributions to political parties in ''Republican Nat'l Comm. v. FEC'', 698 F. Supp. 2d 150 (D.D.C. 2010).<ref>[http://www.onecitizenspeaking.com/2018/07/supreme-court-is-bret-kavanaugh-part-of-a-bush-trump-deal.html SUPREME COURT: IS BRET KAVANAUGH PART OF A BUSH-TRUMP DEAL?]</ref>
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== Interesting Facts about Kavanaugh ==
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* In 1991, Kavanaugh clerked for Third Circuit Judge Walter Stapleton in the same year in which Stapled authored the majority opinion (joined mostly by future Justice [[Sam Alito]]) in ''[[Planned Parenthood v. Casey]]'', before that case was reviewed and decided by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in 1992.
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*Kavanaugh's only argument in the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] was in a case concerning attorney-client privilege and whether it extended past the death the client, [[Vince Foster]]<ref>https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/97-1192.ZS.html</ref>
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*Kavanaugh reportedly strongly opposed the publication of salacious details in the Starr Report while Kavanaugh was working for [[Ken Starr]] on the Lewinsky matter, but Ken Starr overruled him and published it anyway.
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*Kavanaugh has had an exceptional record of his opinions being embraced by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] on appeal, whereby the Supreme Court has adopted Kavanaugh's views 13 times and reversed him only once.
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*Kavanaugh is more active than Justice [[Antonin Scalia]] in dissenting from denials of petitions to accept a case (or rehearing of a case)
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*In 2017, Kavanaugh gave a speech praising the former Chief Justice [[William Rehnquist]] for his opinions on several controversial issues, including [[prayer]] and [[abortion]].<ref>http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-kavanaugh-rehnquist-20180711-story.html</ref>
    
== Criticism of Kavanaugh contraceptive mandate ==
 
== Criticism of Kavanaugh contraceptive mandate ==
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