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    1. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      Still early here in the hearing room, but this will be my thread for Day Two of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. Today: Each senator on the committee gets 30 minutes for questions. If they all take their time, and none go over (ha!), that’s 10.5 hours.pic.twitter.com/bm5KQtt1UC

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    2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      Here’s Sen. Kennedy, talking with Kavanaugh’s wife, Ashley, in advance of Day Two.pic.twitter.com/a5bi3ldIrw

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      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      Five people in a row, one by one, just interrupted the hearing, and were taken out one by one.

      6:38 AM - 5 Sep 2018
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        2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Here are three of the people taken out of the hearing this morning.pic.twitter.com/ntwdaRQuny

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        3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Grassley has begun his 30 minutes of questions, but two more people in the audience have interrupted the hearing, and been swiftly escorted out. There are more than a dozen capitol police standing around the back of the hearing room, basically just waiting.

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        4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Three more protesters taken out since then.

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        5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          "Please tell us what judicial independence means to you," Grassley asks. Kavanaugh: "No one is above the law in our constitutional system."

          13 replies 41 retweets 107 likes
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        6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          About a half-dozen more people have been removed from the hearing. The public seats are currently left empty.

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        7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          After talking about Youngstown Steel, dissents in Korematsu, and US v. Nixon, Kavanaugh discusses Hamdan. Here's more on his ruling there:https://www.lawfareblog.com/kavanaugh-and-military-commissions-reading-law-written-unpopular-defendant …

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        8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          New people were brought in to the public seats, many showed that they had "DISSENT" written on their hands as they walked in. Several have since spoken out and been removed.

          5 replies 32 retweets 122 likes
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        9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          "My personal beliefs are not relevant to how I rule in cases," Kavanaugh says, when asked by Grassley about precedent and if he's ruled against his personal views. "Reliance interests are extremely important to consider" in addressing precedent.

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        10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Chris Geidner Retweeted Zeke Miller

          Will be interesting to see if this comes up in the coming days:https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1037339038561325056 …

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          Zeke MillerVerified account @ZekeJMiller
          Woodward book source notes; Kavanaugh recommended Porter for Staff Sec job: "Foremost among those recommending him was Brett Kavanaugh, who had been staff secretary to President George W. Bush."
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        11. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Talking about judicial independence also means being an independent nominee, Kavanaugh says. - "Litigants have to know we have an open mind." - Says he doesn't want to appear to be agreeing with certain decisions in exchange for votes from senators, citing Roberts' confirmation.

          6 replies 15 retweets 50 likes
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        12. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Feinstein is up, she starts with guns.

          2 replies 11 retweets 86 likes
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        13. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Talking about his DC assault weapons ban opinion dissent. "Are they dangerous and unusual?" Kavanaugh asks, of semiautomatic weapons, saying that all weapons are dangerous, but that they aren't unusual. Opinion: https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/DECA496973477C748525791F004D84F9/$file/10-7036-1333156.pdf …

          3 replies 22 retweets 55 likes
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        14. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Feinstein moves on to abortion. Asks about what Kavanaugh means by "settled law." Is it "settled precedent" and can it be overruled? Kavanaugh says it deserves "respect under principles of stare decisis."

          3 replies 20 retweets 61 likes
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        15. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Kavanaugh notes that Roe "has been reaffirmed many times ... most importantly in Planned Parenthood v Casey." Kavanaugh: "I understand the importance of the issue. ... I don't live in a bubble. I live in the real world."

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        16. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Kavanaugh: "Planned Parenthood v. Casey reaffirmed Roe. ... Casey now becomes a precedent-on-precedent [because] it applied the stare decisis factors and reaffirmed it."

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        17. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Kavanaugh: "It is an important precedent of the Supreme Court. ... I understand the significance of the issue, as a jurisprudential issue ... and the real-world effects of the issue."

          3 replies 8 retweets 41 likes
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        18. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Now, we've moved on to Kavanaugh's views on whether presidents should be investigated.

          1 reply 13 retweets 54 likes
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        19. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Kavanaugh talks about his views, and the fact that they were recommended congressional actions. What led to his change from the Starr era to his post-Bush service. "Sept. 11th," Kavanaugh says.

          2 replies 12 retweets 39 likes
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        20. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          "They were not my constitutional views. ... I've never taken a view on the constitutional question," Kavanaugh says, noting that he was giving views on what Congress could do.

          2 replies 9 retweets 31 likes
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        21. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Of the claim that he thinks Nixon could have been wrongly decided, Kavanaugh says: "That quote is not in context and is a misunderstanding of my position."

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        22. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Feinstein: "Can a sitting president have to respond to a subpoena?" Kavanaugh: "As a sitting judge and a nominee ... I can't give you an answer to a hypothetical."

          7 replies 71 retweets 124 likes
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        23. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Hatch is up. Asked if he'd owe his loyalty to the president or the people, Kavanaugh says, "I owe my loyalty to the Constitution."

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        24. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Kavanaugh is asked about the torture report. He talks about the "enhanced interrogation" program. "I was not involved — I was not read into that program," noting that he was not involved in the program or legal memos underlying it.

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        25. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Asked about detention policies and whether he misled the committee back in 2006 during his DC Circuit hearing. "I told the truth, the whole truth," he said. "I was not read into that program."

          3 replies 8 retweets 35 likes
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        26. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Asked about women in the law and clerks, Kavanuagh says, "There's a pipeline problem." "What it takes is just not accepting the same-old answer," he says. He says, "I try to figure out why, and then do something about it."

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        27. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Hatch asks about Kozinski, saying suggestions that Kavanaugh would have known about the allegations against Kozinski "an effort at 'guilt by association.'"

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        28. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Kavanaugh notes that Kozinski led Kennedy's clerkship hiring process and that Kavanaugh had thus been involved in communications with him through that. Says he didn't know about the allegations until the Post report.

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        29. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Kavanaugh, on Kozinski sexual harassment news: "It was a gut punch. It was a gut punch to me. It was a gut punch to the judiciary. I was shocked and disappointed. Angry. No woman should be subject to sexual harassment in the workplace."

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        30. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          "I am not a skeptic of regulation," Kavanaugh says. "I am a skeptic of unauthorized regulation."

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        31. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Leahy is up. Kavanaugh notes — again — that the torture report and the Office of Professional Responsibility report don't mention his name.

          1 reply 8 retweets 30 likes
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