Judge Brett Kavanaugh addresses the assembled audience in the East Room of the White House moments after President Donald Trump nominated him to be Associate Justice at the U.S. Supreme Court after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Court. July 9, 2018.
Kate Shaw, a professor at Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, is no head-in-the-clouds academic. She keeps up with the Supreme Court’s docket and, most recently, with the daily legal dramas of the Trump era.
That’s in part because she is a contributor to ABC News, especially on Supreme Court matters. Her experience as a former law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens and Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner, as well as her time in the Obama White House counsel’s office, puts her in a position to analyze fast-breaking events with knowledge and enthusiasm. Plus, her husband is Chris Hayes, the MSNBC host.
