Judge Brett Kavanaugh Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Trivia questions with answers about Judge Brett Kavanaugh

Judge Brett Kavanaugh Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

In December 2000, Kavanaugh joined what legal team which was trying to stop the ballot recount in Florida?
A: The legal team of George W. Bush.

Who hired Kavanaugh as an associate after Bush became president in January 2001?
A: The White House Counsel, Alberto Gonzales.

On what date did President George W. Bush nominate Kavanaugh to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit?
A: On July 25, 2003.

How long did his nomination stall in the Senate?
A: For nearly three years.

Democratic senators accused him of being what?
A: Too partisan.

What did Senator Dick Durbin call him?
A: The "Forrest Gump of Republican politics".

In 2003, the American Bar Association had rated Kavanaugh as what?
A: "well qualified" (its highest category).

After doing dozens more interviews in 2006, the American Bar Association downgraded him to what?
A: Only "qualified".

Kavanaugh confirmed by the Senate on May 26 by a vote of what?
A: 57–36.

In July 2007, Senators Patrick Leahy and Dick Durbin accused Kavanaugh of lying to the Judiciary Committee about what?
A: Being involved in formulating the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies.

In November 2011, Kavanaugh dissented when the D.C. Circuit upheld what?
A: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).

In his dissent concerning jurisdiction, Brett compared the individual mandate to what?
A: A tax.

In August 2008, he dissented when the circuit found that the Constitution's Appointments Clause did not prevent the Sarbanes–Oxley Act from creating what?
A: A board whose members were not directly removable by the President.

In 2015, he found that those directly regulated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) could challenge what?
A: The constitutionality of its design.

In October 2016, Kavanaugh wrote for a divided panel finding that the CFPB's design was what?
A: Unconstitutional, and made the CFPB Director removable by the President of the United States.

In 2013, Kavanaugh issued an extraordinary writ of mandamus requiring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to process the license application of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, over the dissent of what Judge?
A: Judge Merrick Garland.

Kavanaugh wrote for unanimous three-judge district courts when they held that the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act could do what?
A: Restrict soft money donations to political parties and could forbid campaign contributions by foreign citizens.

In 2014, Kavanaugh concurred in the judgment when the en banc D.C. Circuit found that the Free Speech Clause did not forbid what?
A: The government from requiring meatpackers to include a country of origin label on their products.

In November 2010, Kavanaugh dissented from the denial of rehearing en banc after the circuit found that attaching a Global Positioning System tracking device to a vehicle violated what?
A: The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In Klayman v. Obama (2015), Kavanaugh concurred when the circuit court denied an en banc rehearing of its decision to vacate a district court order blocking what?
A: The National Security Agency's warrantless bulk collection of telephony metadata.

In April 2009, Kavanaugh wrote a lengthy concurrence when the court found that detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had what?
A: No right to advanced notice before being transferred to another country.

In October 2011, Kavanaugh dissented when the circuit court found that a ban on the sale of semi-automatic rifles was what?
A: Permissible under the Second Amendment.

How many of Kavanaugh's forty-eight law clerks have been women?
A: Twenty-five.

How many of Kavanaugh's forty-eight law clerks have been people of color?
A: Thirteen.

On July 2, 2018, Kavanaugh was one of four U.S. Court of Appeals judges to receive a what?
A: A personal 45-minute interview by President Donald Trump as a potential replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy.

On July 9, Trump nominated Kavanaugh for a seat on what?
A: The Supreme Court.

Between September 10 and 16, 2018, Kavanaugh had the highest opposition (42%) of any of the eleven Supreme Court nominees Gallup has polled about since whom?
A: Robert Bork in 1987.