Kavanaugh on the Hot Seat • FCC Weighs T-Mobile-Sprint Spectrum

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh may have to field some questions about data privacy and net neutrality in his Senate confirmation hearing that kicks off today.

U.S. surveillance policies and the scope of the Fourth Amendment may be a hearing topic, Kavanaugh dissented in a 2013 D.C. Circuit decision, Klayman v. Obama, which held the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of details about Americans’ domestic telephone calls likely violated Fourth Amendment privacy protections.

Lawmakers may try to get Kavanaugh’s take on the Supreme Court’s June ruling in Carpenter v. United States, which held that law enforcement needs a warrant ...