If a prosecutor one day decided to indict President Donald Trump, a future Justice Brett Kavanaugh might not be the one to stop it.
Media reports, like this one over at the Washington Post, or this take over at Vox, concerning Kavanaugh's views on executive power are too quick to assume that he would shield the executive branch during criminal investigations. His writings paint a very different portrait.
Kavanaugh, currently a judge on the District of Columbia Circuit, is a widely discussed candidate to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court. Kavanaugh has worked extensively in the White House for President George W. Bush. That might lead one to believe that he has a strong view of executive power. But it's an earlier career experience that may have shaped Kavanaugh's views, and they are not views that tend to defer to executive power.
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