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    1. 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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    2. 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."

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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. 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.

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    9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      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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    10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      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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      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      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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        2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          "Were you aware that you were getting information from stolen emails?" "No," Kavanaugh says.

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        3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          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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        4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          "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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        5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          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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        6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Oh, here we are. All of this is about "committee confidential" documents.

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        7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          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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        8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          "There are at least 6 documents that are marked committee confidential" that relate to this, Leahy says.

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        9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          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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        10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          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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        11. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          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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        12. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          L: "Can a president issue a pardon in exchange for a bribe?" Kavanaugh says there could be a secondary crime of the bribe, in addition to whatever was being pardoned, and he wouldn't want to conflate them. Also: "The question of self-pardon is something I have never analyzed."

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        13. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Graham is up. Asks if Kavanaugh ever knowingly was involved in the theft of emails. K: No. G: Was he involved in the creation of the warrantless surveillance program? K: No.

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        14. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Graham asks Kavanaugh if he wants to respond to the Parkland father who was at the hearing. "I base my decisions on the law ... but I do so with an awareness of the facts." He says he understands the passion people feel about issues. He did not directly address the father.

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        15. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Kavanaugh used the question to talk about meeting homeless people by volunteering to help provide meals to homeless people through the church.

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        16. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          After a break from protesters, a protester mentioning queer rights is arrested and removed as we approach noon.pic.twitter.com/AqsSNvLvX8

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        17. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Graham asks about Roe. "Would you listen to both sides?" K: I always do. G: When it comes to overturning longstanding precedent, how do you do it? K: Restating his "precedent-on-precedent" discussion, he adds, "There are factors you look at when considering any precedent."

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        18. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Graham asks him about what he did on Sept. 11. G: "When somebody says, post-9/11, we've been at war on terrorism?" K: Says yes, because the AUMF is still in effect.

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        19. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Chris Geidner Retweeted Kimberly Robinson

          This happened.https://twitter.com/KimberlyRobinsn/status/1037373470303236098 …

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          Kimberly RobinsonVerified account @KimberlyRobinsn
          Replying to @KimberlyRobinsn
          @LindseyGrahamSC asks how Kavanaugh wants to be remembered. Kavanaugh: Good dad. Good judge. @SenFeinstein interjects: Good husband. Kavanaugh: Yes, thanks for that. #KavanaughHearings
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        20. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          After break, Durbin is up. He criticizes the document process, specifically going around NARA.

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        21. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Durbin is now asking about the Haynes nomination, and Kavanaugh's answers back in 2006 about the nomination and treatment of detained individuals.

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        22. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          We had our first afternoon interruption just now.

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        23. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          K: "I told the truth about that. My name is not in the reports." Durbin asks if K was involved in the Dec. 2005 torture ban bill signing. "I can't recall what I said," Kavanaugh said, adding that there was much discussion within the White House.

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        24. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Durbin asks about Kavanaugh's Garza dissent — about the undocumented minor who was seeking an abortion. Kavanaugh says SCOTUS parental consent cases are the most analogous cases. Durbin says that Kavanaugh is ignoring the judicial bypass provision, which she had done.

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        25. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Kavanaugh reads a line from Casey: "Minors benefit from consultation about abortion." Durbin says that Kavanaugh is adding to the requirements of Texas law.

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        26. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Kavanaugh continues to ignore Durbin's notes about the fact that the federal gov't was placing additional requirements on the minor above and beyond the Texas law requirements.

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        27. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          In sum, Kavanaugh says: "I did my level best in an emergency posture. I did my best to follow precedent."

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        28. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          We moved on to slaughterhouses — but not The Slaughterhouse Cases. Instead, it's Agri Processor Co. v. NLRB. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-dc-circuit/1319922.html … He says he thinks he was right.

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        29. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          "You failed to follow Supreme Court precedent," Durbin says, noting that the ALJ, NLRB, and two appeals court judges disagreed with him.

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        30. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Grassley has another appointment, so Lee is temporarily taking the chair. Now up, Cornyn.

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        31. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Three more protesters get up before being removed. The final protester referenced Citizens United.pic.twitter.com/tak1mvfIq5

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