I knew Brett Kavanaugh during his years as a Republican operative. Don't let him sit on the Supreme Court. - 2018-09-07

Call it Kavanaugh's cabal: There was his colleague on the Starr investigation, Alex Azar, now the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Mark Paoletta is now chief counsel to Vice President Mike Pence; House anti-Clinton gumshoe Barbara Comstock is now a Republican member of Congress. Future Fox News personalities Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson were there with Ann Coulter, now a best-selling author, and internet provocateur Matt Drudge.
At one time or another, each of them partied at my Georgetown townhouse amid much booze and a thick air of cigar smoke.
In a rough division of labor, Kavanaugh played the role of lawyer — one of the sharp young minds recruited by the Federalist Society to infiltrate the federal judiciary with true believers. Through that network, Kavanaugh was mentored by D.C. Appeals Court Judge Laurence Silberman, known among his colleagues for planting leaks in the press for partisan advantage.
- 2018
- Alex Azar
- Ann Coulter
- Barbara Comstock
- Bill Clinton
- David Brock
- Federalist Society
- George Conway
- Hillary Clinton
- Judge Laurence Silberman
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
- Kellyanne Conway
- Laura Ingraham
- Mark Paoletta
- Matt Drudge
- Mike Pence
- NBC News
- News article
- Republican
- Scaife Foundations
- Ted Olson
- Tucker Carlson
- US Senate
- US Supreme Court