If Brett Kavanaughs confirmed to the Supreme Court it will have profoundly negative effects on workers rights, Womens Rights and Voting Rights for decades to come. All i can say within an hour and 18 minutes of your nomination, you became the biggest threat to democracy. In the eyes of some of the most partisan people in the country who would hold kagan and sotomayor up as highly qualified and would challenge any republican, vote against them. You live in unusual times as i do. You should get more than 90 votes but you wont, and i am sorry it has gotten to where it has. Its got nothing to do about you. If you dont mind, and you dont have to, what did you tell your children yesterday about the hearing . They did as they ill tell them what they told me. They gave me a big hug and said, good job, daddy, and margaret, before she went to bed made a special trip down and gave me a special hug. I just wish if we could have a hearing where the nominees kids could show up. Is that asking too mu
we are back. the nominee is seated and we believe senator richard durbin of illinois takes up the questioning for the democrats. set down and cleared with you their decision on the release of documents? no. i was not involved in the documents process or substance. no one told you you would be the first supreme court nominee to assert executive privilege to limit the access to 100,000 documents relating to your service in the white house? senator, a couple things packed in your question. so i did study the nominee precedent, read all the hearings. this kamg came up in justice scs hearing, i read that, head of the office of legal counsel and asked about that, and i know chief justice roberts there were
archives have done the initial review. mr. chairman, the national archive stated publicly the way we are handling the records for this nomination are unprecedented and it had nothing to do with it. they have asked until the end of october to produce records. they have been told that we don t need you. we ll finish this hearing long before then. i would like to ask to be placed in the record of the statement from the national archive related to the records related to judge kavanaugh. yes, without objection. now, i am going to throw you a pitch which you have seen coming for twelve years. i want to talk to you about the 2006 testimony which you gave before this committee. it was at a different time. we were concerned of the issue of torture and detention and
i think senator leahy had two goals there. one, perhaps to create smoke around these issues of the stolen e-mails and when did judge kavanaugh know of the list program. watching here, i said, wow. does he have it? does he really have him nailed and a document? he didn t quite have it. the suggestion, a little smoke. perhaps he didn t know, maybe a reason he should have known or maybe turn add blind eye. those are the question, was it unusual to be asked to someone s home as you were apparently and shedding light on the contested issue over documents makings case to the american people and the senate this why the documents matter why we need them all. unclear if he said there was a smoking gun in there or we can t know unless we see all the documents. and i d have to ask you. this is not an incident germane to the hearing in chief but something that happened yesterday when the parent of one
think that that s something that i did on my own. we had previously sent out a letter, and only senator klobuchar at that point had taken advantage of the letter to be able to ask for documents that were committee confidential so that they could use them at the hearing, and the only thing i ve done for senator leahy that wasn t already in that letter was to remind people that we did the same thing for the gorsuch nomination to the supreme court and it s policy that senator leahy, when he was chairman of the committee followed and so the only courtesy was extended to senator leahy, the fact he didn t make the request by the timeline that was in the letter, which i think was august 25th. we re going to adjourn 30 minutes for a lunch break, and i think that we ll be back here