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Brett Kavanaugh

U.S. Supreme Court justice since 2018 (born 1965)

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Jan 19, 2026
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What acts has Trump accomplished

Donald J. Trump’s recent and prior administrations put forward a long list of claimed accomplishments spanning executive actions, economic metrics, trade and energy moves, and high-profile appointment...

Nov 14, 2025
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What did Jeffrey Epstein do to ensure Brett Kavanaugh was appointed to the supreme court? Which Senators were involved?

Available reporting in the provided dossier does not show evidence that Jeffrey Epstein took steps to ensure Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court; the sources focus on the 2018 confirmat...

Jan 22, 2026
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Which recent Supreme Court decisions affect ICE authority and immigrant rights (through Nov 2025)?

The most consequential recent Supreme Court action affecting through November 2025 was the court’s September 2025 order staying a district judge’s injunction that had limited ICE’s ability to stop and...

Dec 18, 2025

How many federal judges did Trump appoint and to which courts?

President Donald J. Trump, across his time in office and into his second term through December 9, 2025, had 260 Article III federal judges confirmed — including three Supreme Court associate justices ...

Jan 25, 2026

trump accomplishments first term

’s first term (2017–2021) produced a mix of durable institutional changes—most notably sweeping judicial appointments and a major tax overhaul—alongside aggressive , energy-policy shifts, and high-pro...

Jan 12, 2026

Which Supreme Court justices were appointed by Trump and what key rulings did they influence?

Three current U.S. Supreme Court justices—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett—were appointed by President Donald Trump, a shift that transformed the Court’s center of gravity and helpe...

Oct 22, 2025

What are the most notable cases of violent crime linked to MAGA ideology in the United States?

The supplied materials identify a string of high-profile violent incidents and threats tied by observers or perpetrators to , including the Scalise shooting, pipe bombs in 2018, the Whitmer kidnapping...

Nov 15, 2025

Did Brett Kavanaugh have any documented interactions or contacts with Jeffrey Epstein or his associates?

Available reporting in the provided results shows no direct documentation that Brett Kavanaugh had in-person meetings or social contacts with Jeffrey Epstein; however, newly released emails from Epste...

Oct 21, 2025

Blasey ford allegations against kavenaugh

Christine Blasey Ford alleges Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her as teenagers in 1982; she testified publicly in 2018 and has revisited that testimony in a 2024 memoir, describing lasting trauma a...

Dec 13, 2025

What did Senate Judiciary Committee records or FBI background checks reveal about Kavanaugh's ties to Epstein-related figures?

Senate Judiciary Committee documents and public reporting show that senators and investigators raised serious questions about how the FBI handled tips and the scope of its supplemental background chec...

Jan 16, 2026

How have courts ruled when presidential invocations of the Insurrection Act were legally challenged?

Courts have historically given presidents broad deference to decide when domestic military force is needed, a posture rooted in the 1827 Martin v. Mott precedent that the authority to call out the mil...

Dec 13, 2025

How did Christine Blasey Ford first come forward and who interviewed her?

Christine Blasey Ford first publicly identified herself in an on-the-record interview with The Washington Post published September 16–17, 2018, saying she felt a “civic responsibility” to speak about ...

Dec 16, 2025

What was the role of Bob Woodward, The Washington Post, or The New Yorker in reporting Ford’s allegations?

Bob Woodward is on record denying Republican claims that he told Rep. James Comer that President Biden was “financially corrupt,” and The Washington Post has been the outlet where Woodward works and w...

Nov 25, 2025

Which federal judges did Donald Trump appoint and how many were confirmed during his presidency?

Donald Trump’s first term produced a large, well-documented reshaping of the federal bench: 234 Article III judges were confirmed from 2017–2021, including three Supreme Court justices and 54 appellat...

Jan 31, 2026

When can ICE lawfully detain someone for suspected immigration violations during a street encounter?

may question people in public without a warrant, but more intrusive actions on the street — a temporary detention or an arrest — require legal thresholds: a brief detention (a “stop”) needs reasonable...

Dec 9, 2025

What constitutional arguments did the Court use in the September 8, 2025 ICE decision?

The Supreme Court’s September 8, 2025 order stayed a federal judge’s restraining order that had limited ICE “roving” stops in Los Angeles, and the majority signaled that the Constitution likely permit...

Jan 30, 2026

How have federal courts outside Minnesota ruled on ICE enforcement tactics and warrant requirements in 2025–2026?

have, in 2025–2026, tended to constrain ’s most aggressive warrantless-arrest and entry tactics: a federal judge issued a broad ruling curbing warrantless arrests and a court extended a consent decree...

Jan 17, 2026

What limits have federal courts previously placed on ICE racial‑profiling tactics and which appeals are still pending?

Federal trial courts in Los Angeles barred ICE and DHS from stopping, questioning or detaining people based solely on broad, demographic factors—such as perceived race or ethnicity, the language a per...

Jan 7, 2026

How did the partisan composition of courts change after Trump’s judicial appointments?

Donald Trump’s judicial appointments substantially increased the share of Republican-appointed judges on the federal bench—most markedly on the courts of appeals—while producing only more modest shift...

Dec 18, 2025

Which justices sided with the majority and dissent in the 7-2 immunity decision and why?

The reporting and opinions show this was not a 7–2 decision but a sharply divided 6–3 Supreme Court ruling that recognized substantial presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for some official...