Brett Michael Kavanaugh is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on July 9, 2018, and has served since October 6, 2018. Kavanagh tested positive of COVID-19 on Friday, days before the Supreme Court is set to return for oral arguments.

Born on February 12, 1965 in Washington, DC, Kavanaugh is of Irish Catholic descent. He grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and attended Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit boys’ college prep school as a teenager.

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Kavanaugh then went to Yale University where several of his classmates remembered him as a “serious but not showy student” who loved sports, especially basketball. He tried out for the Yale Bulldogs men’s basketball team but did not get into it. He then played on the junior varsity team for two years and graduated in 1987. He then joined Yale law school and graduated in 1990.

After getting his law degree, Brett Kavanaugh clerked with different judges, including  Walter King Stapleton who wrote the majority opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

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Kavanaugh worked for former Solicitor General Ken Starr until 1997 as an Associate Counsel in the Office of the Independent Counsel. He reopened an investigation into the 1993 gunshot death of Vincent Foster while working there.

After working at a plethora of places, Kavanaugh went on to become a US Circuit Judge in 2006 when he was nominated by then-President George W Bush.  

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Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in July 2018. In his first public speech after the nomination, Kavanaugh said, “No president has ever consulted more widely or talked with more people from more backgrounds to seek input about a Supreme Court nomination.”

He faced Congress scrutiny as he faced sexual harassment allegations but was eventually confirmed by the Senate, mostly on party lines.