As part of its ongoing pretensions to anti-elitism, the White House has sought to portray Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, as a regular aw-shucks guy with whom any member of MAGA nation would totally crack open a cold one, and conservatives are going all out to soften his image. “Even though he has Ivy League credentials and a fancy job, he’s kind of a regular, all-American guy,” Helgi Walker, a Washington litigator who worked with Kavanaugh under George W. Bush, told The Washington Post. “He likes to play basketball and drink beer. . . . It’s very refreshing in a town like Washington.” If you didn’t examine his judicial record, you’d never know that Kavanaugh is a relentless advocate for business interests and financial deregulation. In fact, you might not even know he’s a judge! Tim Higgins, a bartender at the Chevy Chase Lounge, saw Kavanaugh as “a middle-aged guy named Brett who likes to pop in for a Budweiser and a burger after coaching his daughters’ basketball games.” Until his nomination, he told the Post, “I never knew Brett was a lawyer.” Indeed, Kavanaugh is such an “all-American guy” that he racked up to six-figures worth of credit-card debt on baseball tickets over the past decade, at times listing liabilities that may have exceeded his assets. If that’s not MAGA, we don’t what is!

According to financial disclosures provided by the White House, the would-be Supreme Court judge reported having between $60,000 and $200,000 in debt accrued on three credit cards and a loan. The cards held between $15,000 and $50,000 in debt each, and his Thrift Savings Plan loan was between $15,000 and $50,000. In a statement, White House spokesman Raj Shah told the Post that Kavanaugh acquired the debt by purchasing Washington Nationals season tickets and playoff game tickets for himself and a “handful” of his friends, in addition to home improvements. While the figures might represent a drop in the bucket for the more wealthy members of the Supreme Court, some of whom are multi-millionaires, that was not the case for Kavanaugh. As a federal circuit court judge he made roughly $220,000 annually, plus $27,000 from lecturing at Harvard Law School last year, while his wife, who didn’t report any income for the four years prior to 2015, makes $66,000 annually as the town manager of Chevy Chase, Maryland.

. . . for Kavanaugh, the differences between his finances and those of his would-be peers on the court are stark. He lists just two kinds of assets—unspecified accounts held with Bank of America, and his wife’s retirement fund from her job in Texas—totaling between $15,000 to $65,000.

His public filing does not include his home, which he purchased with his wife, Ashley, in 2006 for $1.2 million. Public real-estate filings indicate that the couple has refinanced their mortgage twice, most recently in 2015. Their current mortgage is $865,000.

Fortunately, we don’t have to worry about Brett’s financial situation or spending habits because, rather fortuitously, “the credit-card debts and loan were either paid off or fell below the reporting requirements in 2017, according to the filings, which do not require details on the nature or source of such payments.” So unless it comes to light that he killed and buried a guy below the Nationals’ dugout, he’s virtually guaranteed to be confirmed. And even then, Republicans would probably find a way to push him through.