Brett Kavanaugh

The question before the Court is: Under Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, may schools maintain women's and girls' sports for biological females?

To provide equal opportunity for female athletes, schools do not merely maintain, for example, one soccer team, one basketball team, one ice hockey team, and one lacrosse team that are equally open to female and male athletes.

It’s important for maintaining public confidence in the judiciary and the Supreme Court to know how the opinions are being conveyed and received and understood by the American people.

I’m aware of it. I definitely pay attention to it.

There can be a risk in writing the opinion of lock-in effect—of making a snap judgment and putting it in writing.

The collegiality of the Supreme Court is very strong.

We’re nine independent people.

I think there are different views among members of the court about when to do it and when not.

To preserve what I think is the crown jewel of our constitutional democracy, which is the independence of the judiciary.

What is the status of the new regulation or executive order for the next two years?

Executive branches of both parties over the last 20 years have been increasingly trying to issue executive orders and regulations that achieve the policy objectives of the president in power.