Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: The Kavanaugh Hearings With Michael McConnell

Examining the confirmation process and the immediate impact Kavanaugh will have on the High Court.

Matters of Policy & PoliticsAugust 27, 2018
Area 45: The Kavanaugh Hearings With Michael McConnell

Awaiting Congress on the day after Labor Day: the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Michael McConnell, a Hoover Institution senior fellow, the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, and a former a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, takes us through the confirmation process and Kavanaugh’s immediate impact on the High Court.

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