Despite many firefighters’ best efforts, Brett Kavanaugh is still a Supreme Court Justice. But perhaps this hot scoop from BuzzFeed will be the nail in his coffin at last:

Brett Kavanaugh Was Nearly Silent As The Supreme Court Considers Whether Employers Can Fire People For Being Gay Or Transgender https://t.co/UbW9YudQbI pic.twitter.com/9Rv7iW1nlD

More from BuzzFeed reporter Zoe Tillman:

In the first major LGBTQ rights case to reach the US Supreme Court since he became a justice last year, Justice Brett Kavanaugh gave little away during arguments on Tuesday, asking only one question.

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But Kavanaugh gave no real clues about what he’s thinking during arguments on Tuesday. The court heard two sets of cases — first, whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which protects workers against discrimination from private employers based on “sex,” protects workers based on their sexual orientation, and second, whether the law protects workers who are transgender.

Kavanaugh’s lone question was directed at Jeffrey Harris, who argued on behalf of employers in the sexual orientation cases. Kavanaugh asked if Harris was drawing a distinction between the “literal” and “ordinary” meaning of “because of sex” in the context of sex-based discrimination. Harris said he was not, and then moved on to another point. Kavanaugh didn’t follow-up or elaborate on why he’d asked the question.