Veteran journalist Bob Woodward was prepared to come out with an “explosive” report about Brett Kavanaugh as the judge defended his honor during a contentious Supreme Court confirmation fight in 2018 but was talked out of it by editors at the Washington Post.

The report, sources told the New York Times, would have identified Kavanaugh as an anonymous source for Woodward’s 1999 book Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate.