Three more protesters taken out since then.
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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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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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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."
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Now, we've moved on to Kavanaugh's views on whether presidents should be investigated.
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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.
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"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.
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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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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."
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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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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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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."
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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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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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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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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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"I am not a skeptic of regulation," Kavanaugh says. "I am a skeptic of unauthorized regulation."
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Leahy is up. Kavanaugh notes — again — that the torture report and the Office of Professional Responsibility report don't mention his name.
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Leahy is talking about the stolen emails — an OLD stolen emails story. Here's a read, folks: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16327-2004Feb5.html …
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Leahy: "Did Mr. Miranda ever provide you with highly specific information about what [Democratic] senators were planning?" Kavanaugh is winding, says there were meetings and, "of course" things would come up about what senators were planning.
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Leahy raises a July 19, 2002 email to Kavanaugh from Miranda, and questions raised by Leahy's staff about Priscilla Owen's nomination.
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"Were you aware that you were getting information from stolen emails?" "No," Kavanaugh says.
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Note: Of the 100,000 pages of documents withheld by the Office of George W. Bush from Kavanaugh's files, Burck has said the key part of those was related to Kavanaugh's White House work on judicial nominations.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/the-trump-administration-is-keeping-100000-pages-of-brett …
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"Did Miranda ever ask to meet with you at an off-site location outside of the White House or Senate?" Kavanuagh hedges. Leahy asks, specifically, if he was asked to attend a meeting about Biden and Feinstein. Kavanaugh says it was possible.
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Leahy: Did he ever hand you material separately from what was sent via email? Kavanaugh: Could you give me something specific? L: Documents marked confidential? K: "It wouldn't have raised anything in particular in my mind."
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Oh, here we are. All of this is about "committee confidential" documents.
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Leahy: "I want Judge Kavanaugh to see the emails, which came from Mr. Miranda." Grassley is unhappy. Leahy also is unhappy.
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"There are at least 6 documents that are marked committee confidential" that relate to this, Leahy says.
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Leahy showed a video. Grassley said this is a precedent-making move, so he read a whole thing about this, and is letting Kavanaugh provide more video if he wishes. The Senate is a helluva thing.
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The video is about warrantless surveillance program. Kavanaugh notes the video is about the "terrorist surveillance program." Kavanaugh says he had not previously been read in to the program.
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Asked if he ever worked with John Yoo on warrantless surveillance. Kavanaugh says it was "all hands on deck" after Sept. 11. "There was so much going on in the wake of Sept. 11. ... We had eight lawyers in there ... and there were so many issues to consider."
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