The White House responds to Durbin's claim that Kavanaugh misled the Senate Judiciary Committee during his DC Circuit confirmation hearing, saying that it is Durbin who is being "deliberately misleading."pic.twitter.com/zgI8yzvYID
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Grassley says that Dems are being deceptive with their figure about the % of Kavanaugh documents available to the committee because Dems' number of total docs is based on NARA's estimate of the # of docs and b/c Dems are including "irrelevant staff secretary documents."
Klobuchar focuses on Kavanaugh’s writings and opinions on executive power in her opening statement.
I can’t believe I ran out to grab lunch and am missing this.https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1037034875038191623?s=21 …
Blumenthal is focused on Trump's attacks on the rule of law and law enforcement — and the role of the judiciary in standing up to such attacks.
Blumenthal says the 42K pages of documents were not uploaded to the software being used by both parties until 6:45a this morning, so he doesn't know how the majority staff reviewed them last night.
Blumenthal: "By law, these documents belong to the American people. They don't belong to President Bush or President Trump. It's only a matter of time."
After continual denial from Grassley to consider Blumenthal's motion to adjourn and Blumenthal's appeal of the decision of the chair, Blumenthal says, "I will proceed, under protest."
Cornyn questions whether people are taking too much time. Grassley basically says, yes, but that he hadn't stopped it before, so he won't now: "Either you run the committee or the committee runs you, and I let the committee run me this time."
Blumenthal: "If you are confirmed after this truncated and concealed process, there will always be a taint. There will always be an asterisk after your name."
Sen. Kennedy: "I'm not looking for an ideologue. I'm not looking for a hater." He also wants a judge who knows how to use a semicolon.
Booker opened his opening with a bit more fight on documents, but then pivoted to this —>https://twitter.com/zoetillman/status/1037058379007643654?s=21 …
Tillis says he's really impressed that Kavanaugh and his family have handled ... sitting in the hearing room today.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is up, and he's in a mood: "This is shaping up to be the hypocrisy hearings, and that's tough to do in the Senate today. ... This is ridiculous."
Lisa Blatt, Rob Portman, and Condoleezza Rice have entered the committee hearing room to do the introductions of Brett Kavanaugh.
After rather snooze-y introductions from Rice and Portman, Lisa Blatt is up.
Blatt introduces herself as a liberal Democrat, whose hero is Ginsburg, who voted for Clinton and Obama, and who says she wishes Feinstein and not Grassley was chairing the hearing. Nonetheless, she says she's here to support Kavanaugh's nomination.
Blatt, who regularly appears before the Supreme Court: "I received many angry calls from friends and strangers for supporting Judge Kavanaugh ... At the end of the day, I enthusiastically support Judge Kavanaugh."
Kavanaugh, at long last, speaks. He says Justice Kennedy's legacy is best summed up in one word: "Liberty."
Kavanaugh, speaking about his work on the DC Circuit, praises "our superb chief judge, Merrick Garland."
JUST IN: US Capitol Police report 70 arrests today associated with the Kavanaugh hearings, including 61 people removed from the committee room.pic.twitter.com/2IS6HlSXbE
And, for a wrap on what happened today at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing (day one), check out my and @ZoeTillman's story at the @BuzzFeedNews site:https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/kavanaugh-confirmation-hearing …
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