This is a Cato special podcast. I'm Keelab Brown.

Brett Kavanaugh, a judge on the DC Circuit is Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court.

Cato adjunct scholar Andrew Grossman discusses is Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court.

Cato adjunct scholar Andrew Grossman discusses Kavanaugh's record on the DC circuit

relating to regulation, abortion, due process, and other areas.

We spoke today. We can dispense with a lot of the biographical details here.

In his time on the DC circuit, what do we know about how he feels about all of these agencies that he has to deal with?

Sure. So Judge Kavanaugh sat on the DC circuit for 12 years and that court is our nation's foremost regulatory court

adjudicating issues regarding the administrative state. It's got a steady diet, regulatory

challenges to exercises of government power.

And Judge Kavanaugh has shown himself to be one of the foremost

defenders of the constitutional separation of powers and one of the really

a bulwark against overweening and over aggressive

government when government agencies seek to take their statutory authority

and ride it out to new and unexpected ends.

Judge Kavanaugh is the one who reels them back in and tells them, you don't have the authority

to do that.

You're violating people's rights and you really have to live within the

power that Congress has given you. And on that court, which is often so

deferential to these administrative agencies, it really is a breath of fresh air.

He really does enforce the laws it's written and he's very aggressive in enforcing constitutional

strictures against aggressive exercise of government power.

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