GOP privacy advocates hold their fire on Brett Kavanaugh

Published July 15, 2018 12:00am ET



Republican senators who strongly opposed the government’s collection of domestic call records say they still are reviewing the record of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who authored a broad defense of the program.

Many senators viewed the National Security Agency’s call record dragnet as a violation of the Fourth Amendment, and Congress voted to end the once-secret collection months before Kavanaugh authored a 2015 concurrent opinion finding it legal.

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