The first day of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh introduced the country — briefly — to the nominee, who pledged in his opening statement to be “a neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no litigant or policy.”
On Wednesday, Kavanaugh gets what is expected to be a 12-hour grilling as the Senate Judiciary Committee questions him on a range of topics.
Questions from members of the committee are expected to span the course of Kavanaugh’s long career in Washington — from his tenure as a member of independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr’s team in the 1990s to the George W. Bush White House to the 12 years he has spent as a federal judge.
Here are some of the issues most likely to arise.