The Partisan Battle Brett Kavanaugh Now Regrets

By Michael D. Shear and Adam Liptak, The New York Times

05 August 18

y the beginning of 1998, Brett M. Kavanaugh seemed set: a Yale law degree, three judicial clerkships, including one with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, and, less than a decade out of law school, a coveted partnership at Kirkland & Ellis, a prominent law firm with offices a block from the White House.

At just 32, Mr. Kavanaugh had wrapped up a three-year stint working for his mentor, Ken Starr, on the sprawling Whitewater investigation of President Bill Clinton. The inquiry was finally winding down, and Mr. Kavanaugh believed it was in some ways deeply flawed, telling an audience at Georgetown University Law Center, “It makes no sense at all to have an independent counsel looking at the conduct of the president.”

Then, just as he was starting at the law firm, he went back.

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