There’s Now A Big Dumb Fight Over How Dems Released Kavanaugh Docs

He told the committee if Kavanaugh is confirmed, the Supreme court would become “the most presidential powers-friendly court in the modern era”. At her Supreme Court confirmation, she declined to answer whether she still believed that, saying it was an issue that would likely come before the court.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) followed up by asking Eastmond what p0licies she would like to see enacted – again, highlighting how far off-track these hearings have gone.

Democrats were infuriated in the weeks leading up to Kavanaugh’s hearings due to the lack of documentation the National Archives provided on the judge’s history.

Booker is the first of the Democrats’ better-known potential 2020 presidential candidates to make plans to visit the leadoff caucus state this year.

In an interview with The Daily Caller on Tuesday, President Trump said, “I don’t know why they don’t take care of a situation like that because it’s bad”.

The problem with Collins, as she inches her way toward what looks like a vote to confirm Kavanaugh, is that she’s trying to have it both ways. He cited his opinion in a case releasing Osama bin Laden’s former chauffeur, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, from detention at the US military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

While other witnesses on her panel testified to Kavanaugh’s brilliance as a law professor and personal kindness and generosity as a mentor to his students and clerks, Garza said it was important to her to also discuss how much Kavanaugh’s decision in Jane’s case affected someone whom he would never meet.

“Judge Brett Kavanaugh distinguished himself”, Pence said on Fox News Sunday.

The New Jersey Democrat identified a Kavanaugh document related to racial profiling among the tens of thousands deemed “committee confidential” – meaning senators can view them but they have not been released to the public in advance of the hearing.

“The most eye-catching conclusion from reviewing Judge Kavanaugh’s opinions on the appellate court is the consistency of the outcomes compared to the inconsistency of his reasoning – the overwhelming tendency to reach conclusions favorable to corporations and against the public interest”, said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen”. Kavanaugh correctly said he didn’t know what she was talking about, and also said he didn’t know every lawyer at Kasowitz Benson Torres – a law firm with almost 300 attorneys.

Rather, he hemmed and hawed and, when the going got really tough, simply rebuffed any and all attempts to discern where he stands on abortion and other critical issues of our time. “I don’t live in a bubble, I live in the real world”. At her confirmation hearing, for instance, Sonia Sotomayor used the familiar label of settled law to describe the court’s landmark decision that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to gun ownership. “Precedent is the foundation of our system”. Activists have raised almost $400,000 for Collins’ opponent in her 2020 re-election campaign if she votes to confirm Kavanaugh; the money will be returned to donors if she votes against his nomination.

“This is a mockery and a travesty of justice”, yelled one protester this week.

If approved by the Republican-led committee, Kavanaugh’s nomination would go to the full Senate, where Republicans will hold a slim 51-49 majority. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., for how they attacked Kavanaugh. Dozens of Democrats have announced their opposition.