Kavanaugh wrote a sexually graphic memo while sleep deprived during the Starr probe, according to The Atlantic. A former colleague of Kavanaugh's told The Atlantic that the judge later "regretted" its tone. The memo had a list of explicit questions for former President Clinton about Monica Lewinsky. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a memo with a list of sexually explicit questions for former President Bill Clinton during "a fog of sleep deprivation" and later regretted how it came across, a former colleague of Kavanaugh's told The Atlantic. Kavanaugh cut his teeth in the conservative legal world on special prosecutor Ken Starr's investigation into the Clinton investigation after a series of clerkships. The wide-ranging probe scrutinized the Clintons' business dealings in Arkansas and Clinton's lies about his relationship with former intern Monica Lewinsky that eventually led to his impeachment.