--- title: Law Students Praise Nominee Brett Kavanaugh For Great Hair description: The White House was supportive of the praises Brett Kavanaugh's students sang who remarked on everything from his teaching to his hair. canonical: https://time.com/5344368/students-on-brett-kavanaugh/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-20T18:23:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:58.465Z og:title: Students Praise Brett Kavanaugh's 'Great Hair' and 'Rigor' og:description: The White House loved what these students have to say og:url: https://time.com/5344368/students-on-brett-kavanaugh/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt217a70f95b4cc706/698935decf40a84093c4cc9d/white-house-law-students-brett-kavanaugh-praises.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Meets With Senators On Capitol Hill og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Students Praise Brett Kavanaugh's 'Great Hair' and 'Rigor' twitter:description: The White House loved what these students have to say twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt217a70f95b4cc706/698935decf40a84093c4cc9d/white-house-law-students-brett-kavanaugh-praises.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The White House Supports the Law Students Praising Brett Kavanaugh's 'Great Hair' and 'Rigor' > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=f83dac65-ee7f-462d-a496-4fc67266b022&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 20, 2018 6:23 PM UTC  WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 12: Judge Brett Kavanaugh (L) smiles prior to a meeting with Sen. Benjamin Sasse (R-NE) in the Russell Senate Office Building on July 12, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh is meeting with members of the Senate after U.S. President Donald Trump nominated him to succeed retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. (Photo by Alex Edelman/Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 12: Judge Brett Kavanaugh (L) smiles prior to a meeting with Sen. Benjamin Sasse (R-NE) in the Russell Senate Office Building on July 12, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh is meeting with members of the Senate after U.S. President Donald Trump nominated him to succeed retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. (Photo by Alex Edelman/Getty Images) Alex Edelman—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 20, 2018 6:23 PM UTC The White House was supportive of the praise that some of [Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh](http://time.com/5336627/brett-kavanaugh-balance/)‘s 350 law students from Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown gave in anonymous evaluations while they were in his classes. The [White House website](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/new-york-times-best-professor-evenhanded-great-hair-brett-kavanaugh-seen-law-students/) shared an article by the [_New York Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court.html) that noted that “in 12 sets of evaluations spanning 700 pages, there was almost only glowing praise for Judge Kavanaugh’s teaching.” Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, received compliments from one of his students for being, among other things, “a rigorous thinker, a devoted teacher and a gracious person.” Another student chose to reveal in their anonymous evaluation that he had “great hair.” Kavanaugh has also received his fair share of criticism from the academic community following his nomination. More than 700 current and former students of Yale Law School (where Kavanaugh graduated in 1990) wrote an [open letter](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUrOBy5sPzw1VGusbYr2VqVqPiNmO5adNdo8mIcsryvgOfrw/viewform) to their law school denouncing [faculty support](https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/brett-kavanaugh-90-nominated-us-supreme-court) of Kavanaugh’s nomination. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5344368/students-on-brett-kavanaugh/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5344368/students-on-brett-kavanaugh/"},"headline":"The White House Supports the Law Students Praising Brett Kavanaugh's 'Great Hair' and 'Rigor'","datePublished":"2018-07-20T18:23:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:58.465Z","description":"Here's what the students have to say","url":"https://time.com/5344368/students-on-brett-kavanaugh/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt217a70f95b4cc706/698935decf40a84093c4cc9d/white-house-law-students-brett-kavanaugh-praises.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt217a70f95b4cc706/698935decf40a84093c4cc9d/white-house-law-students-brett-kavanaugh-praises.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Meets With Senators On Capitol Hill","caption":"Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Meets With Senators On Capitol Hill","creditText":"Alex Edelman—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5344368/students-on-brett-kavanaugh/","name":"The White House Supports the Law Students Praising Brett Kavanaugh's 'Great Hair' and 'Rigor'"}}]}] ```