FACT SHEET: Information on REBECCA TAIBLESON, Trump's nominee To the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Defending Brett Kavanaugh Amid Sexual Assault Allegations

• Taibleson clerked for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh while he sat on the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals and testified in support of her former boss during his Supreme Court confirmation process. 

• Taibleson co-authored an op-ed for Fox News defending Brett Kavanaugh and dismissing the allegations as "direct character assassination." 

Enacting Trump’s Agenda

• Taibleson served as Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General from 2019-2022 during the first Trump administration. 

• In her role in the Trump Department of Justice, Taibleson litigated Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump, a lawsuit concerning whether it is constitutional for the U.S. President to block critics on social media. 

Deep Federalist Society Ties

• Taibleson is a longtime contributor to the Federalist Society, a network of conservative lawyers, academics, and judges that has helped orchestrate a widespread conservative capture of the judiciary. 

• Taibleson is the daughter of Michael Krauss, a Federalist Society-affiliated academic who has held a long-time professorship at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law––through which Federalist Society mastermind Leonard Leo has cultivated and catered to conservative judges across the country by hosting numerous free luxury trips.  Krauss is also a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, which orchestrated Project 2025, and was a longtime director at the National Association of Scholars, a right-wing education advocacy group.