important cases. he showed an independent streak on a couple small cases and that s because most of what we ve gotten this term has been small cases. we are waiting on the big cases. i like to judge people by their record. i think brett kavanaugh does not have much of a record on the supreme court, and so have made back in a month and i ll tell you more. shannon: that s true. the end of june, that s when we get the big remaining cases and we were talking about the ones we have to get. you clerked for justice thomas. he has raised some eyebrows over a couple decisions. it happens more than people realize. we had a case justice ginsburg sided with the conservatives recently. big cases it often does split along predictable cases and in many cases it doesn t. we have seen is so far on the bench kavanaugh has been what we
it s geico easy. oh, duncan. stay up. no sleepies. shannon: brett kavanaugh being praised by fellow justice ruth bader ginsburg. she gave the junior justice credit for keeping a promise from his contentious confirmation hearings, bringing on a all-female group of law clerks. not everyone agrees he should be getting a pat on the back. let s discuss. good to see you guys. let me read what justice ginsburg said. she said justice kavanaugh made history by bringing on board and all-female locker crew thanks to his selections the court has this term for the first time more women than men serving as law clerks. keeping that promise. he deserves a little bit of credit for it. it s nice when you can find a few graduates of ultra-elite law schools who have clerked for
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ultra-elite judges. like all of the clerks. almost all the clerks. i think it s nice he did this. i think we remember supreme court justice not for their clerks. i m less interested in who he s hiring and more interested in whether he s going to apply the law fairly to everyone. shannon: i think we agree that should be the way going to assess her justice. above the law.com, writing the headline is i don t give a flying thing how many women law clerks brett kavanaugh harris. she goes on to write it doesn t matter how many women he surrounds himself with. it can t make me forget the testimony of christine blasey ford. i don t know if his clerks don t believe dr. forker don t care but neither makes me happy. there are a lot of women who thought there was a lot of things that didn t add up about christine blasey ford s story. some women clerks were the ones
right before senator susan collins hit the floor today her democratic colleague tim kaine suggested the most powerful single chamber legislative body in the world cannot be trusted when it comes to supporting survivors of sexual assault. people have suffered from sexual assault or harassment are watching to see how the senate responds to these serious charges, and what do they see? by moving forward to a vote anyway the unmistakable message to survivors is the senate does not take allegations of sexual assault seriously. joining me now is senator tim kaine, democrat from virginia. there were many opposed to brett kavanaugh being nominated and him being confirmed who are