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    Kavanaugh argued the president can be impeached for lies, cover-ups and refusing to testify

    by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Aug 24, 2018 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - The young attorney decided the president deserved to be forced from office for "his pattern of revolting behavior" and the "sheer number of his wrongful acts."

    "The president has disgraced his office. ... He has lied to his aides. He has lied to the American people," Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote in a 1998 memo to his colleagues. "I'm strongly opposed to giving (him) any 'break' ... unless he either resigns or ... issues a public apology."

    Kavanaugh, a fast-rising Republican legal star, then 33, went back to work on a 132-page memo to his boss, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, that outlined the grounds for impeaching President Bill Clinton.

    It was 20 years ago this month that Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, set out his broad view of obstruction of justice and of what constitutes

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