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Legal Lessons From the Kavanaugh Confirmation

Legal Lessons From the Kavanaugh Confirmation
Two men walk in front of the Supreme Court on the first day that Justice Brett Kavanaugh will hear oral arguments in Washington, DC on October 9, 2018. The recent confirmation hearing of Justice Kavanaugh was messy perhaps because the procedures and processes for such hearings are not clear. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images
Ronald J. Rychlak
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While the dust hasn’t yet settled, Justice Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court, and it is time to draw some lessons about the law and about the American legal system from the national soap opera that the United States just experienced.

Ronald J. Rychlak
Ronald J. Rychlak
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Ronald J. Rychlak is the Jamie L. Whitten chair in law and government at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of several books, including “Hitler, the War, and the Pope,” “Disinformation” (co-authored with Ion Mihai Pacepa), and “The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East” (co-edited with Jane Adolphe).
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