# Senator Harris interrogates Brett Kavanaugh in confirmation hearings

Date: 2018

## The fact

On 27 September 2018 Senator [Kamala Harris](/people/kamala-harris) was a prominent Democratic interrogator in Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. It polarised; it did not write the later Court docket as a unique coefficient.

## Context

The Judiciary Committee sat. Neighbouring Dobbs 2022 is a later Court instrument she did not author. She did not sit as a justice.

Dobbs 2022 is neighbouring later Court output. Senate 2016 is the parent election.

The Vice President of the United States presides over the Senate, casts tie-breaking votes, and carries delegated [White House](/organizations/white-house) portfolios. She does not write House bills, CBP operational orders, or Federal Reserve rate decisions. A vice president is not co-author of every presidential statute.

## Evidence and sources

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is political polarisation: a completed high-salience confirmation fight is a dated civic-conflict instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: September 2018 Harris participation in Kavanaugh hearings, independently reported.

Not established: that she wrote later Dobbs, or a unique later turnout coefficient from that Thursday.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The committee voted. The Senate confirmed. The Court later sat.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Senator Harris interrogates Brett Kavanaugh in confirmation hearings, not a later speech about Senator Harris interrogates Brett Kavanaugh in confirmation hearings.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Senator Harris interrogates Brett Kavanaugh in confirmation hearings on 2018-09-27 is not a licence to treat every later United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Senator Harris interrogates Brett Kavanaugh in confirmation hearings into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She interrogated as a senator. The committee voted. The Senate confirmed. The Court later sat. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kamala Harris: https://factrail.ai/people/kamala-harris

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kavanaugh-idUSKCN1M72Q4
- https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-kavanaugh-2018