President Donald Trump's nominee to serve on the high court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, was a young lawyer on the team of independent counsel Kenneth Starr during the probe of President Bill Clinton that led to his eventual impeachment by the House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice in covering up his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
At the age of 33, Kavanaugh wrote most of the portion of the Starr report to Congress that laid out grounds for impeachment against Clinton.
Another Kavanaugh colleague on the Starr team, Edward Page, now in private practice in Tampa, Florida, thinks it's still likely.
CNN legal pundit Jeffrey Toobin lamented how 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton must feel, seeing someone from the Starr team nominated to the high court.
Kavanaugh and Bittman co-authored a Washington Post op-ed in November 1999 with fellow Starr team member Solomon Wisenberg defending the Starr investigation, responding to a critical piece by the Post's longtime liberal columnist Richard Cohen.
In hindsight, Kavanaugh later said, it would have been better for the Starr team to stick with one matter-and, if needed, hand off other matters to a new independent counsel.
"So, he got new jurisdiction over a travel office matter, an FBI files matter, and eventually the Lewinsky matter. I think it would have been better in retrospect for Judge Starr to have handled what he was initially assigned and, if there was a new special counsel needed in these other matters, for new people to be appointed," Kavanaugh continued.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/11/the-role-kavanaugh-played-in-the-starr-investigation-of-clinton/
At the age of 33, Kavanaugh wrote most of the portion of the Starr report to Congress that laid out grounds for impeachment against Clinton.
Another Kavanaugh colleague on the Starr team, Edward Page, now in private practice in Tampa, Florida, thinks it's still likely.
CNN legal pundit Jeffrey Toobin lamented how 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton must feel, seeing someone from the Starr team nominated to the high court.
Kavanaugh and Bittman co-authored a Washington Post op-ed in November 1999 with fellow Starr team member Solomon Wisenberg defending the Starr investigation, responding to a critical piece by the Post's longtime liberal columnist Richard Cohen.
In hindsight, Kavanaugh later said, it would have been better for the Starr team to stick with one matter-and, if needed, hand off other matters to a new independent counsel.
"So, he got new jurisdiction over a travel office matter, an FBI files matter, and eventually the Lewinsky matter. I think it would have been better in retrospect for Judge Starr to have handled what he was initially assigned and, if there was a new special counsel needed in these other matters, for new people to be appointed," Kavanaugh continued.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/11/the-role-kavanaugh-played-in-the-starr-investigation-of-clinton/
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