Justice Brett Kavanaugh said this week that he is “optimistic” about the court, his colleagues, and the country in the first-known public comments any justice has made off the bench since the release of an investigative report into the leak of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade.
Kavanaugh, speaking at Notre Dame Law School, did not directly reference the leak investigation, but he said that while judges get a lot of criticism and “heat” at times, he aspires to be an optimist.
“I’m optimistic about the court, I’m optimistic about the country, I’m optimistic about my colleagues,” he said.
Separately, the justice also presented a dissent of US News & World Report’s law school rankings.
His comments were delivered on Monday but only released publicly on Thursday in a video from Notre Dame.
Kavanaugh reminisced about his time working as a lawyer at the White…
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