Brett Michael Kavanaugh is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, nominated by President Donald Trump in 2018 to replace the retiring "swing vote" Justice Anthony Kennedy. A product of the conservative legal establishment and the Federalist Society, Kavanaugh spent years as a powerful appellate judge in D.C. and a key operative in the Bush White House. On the Roberts Court, Kavanaugh operates at the exact ideological center of the 6-3 conservative supermajority. While he consistently votes with the conservatives on major issues like abortion (*Dobbs*), gun rights, and presidential immunity, he frequently acts alongside Chief Justice Roberts to temper the most aggressive, sweeping originalist impulses of Thomas and Alito, preferring narrower, more incremental rulings. His jurisprudence focuses heavily on the separation of powers and reigning in executive agencies via the "major questions doctrine."