Judge Brett Kavanaugh earns $220,600 a year as a circuit judge, but supporters want to toss some cash his way to show their support.
A GoFundMe campaign has raised more than $550,000 to support Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his family, in the wake of allegations of sexual assault being leveled against him.
John Hawkins, who owns conservative blog, Right Wing News, said he created the GoFundMe eight days ago because he was “disgusted” by Kavanaugh’s treatment throughout his nomination.
“We live in a country where innocent until proven guilty is supposed to mean something; yet Brett Kavanaugh’s reputation is being dragged through the mud while his family is facing non-stop death threats,” Hawkins wrote on the campaign’s page.
Hawkins went on to say that he that all of the money collected “will go to Brett Kavanaugh’s family or alternately, if they refuse to accept it, to a charity of their choice.”
In a recent update to the crowdfunding page, Hawkins wrote that he has been in touch with a staffer for the judge who told him Kavanaugh’s team is aware of the GoFundMe.
Last week Kavanaugh and Christine Balsey Ford, a college professor who alleges Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a high school party in 1982, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kavanaugh denied Ford’s allegations and others brought against him by Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick.
Several GoFundMe campaigns supporting Ford have also raised more than $700,000 on her behalf.