Three more protesters get up before being removed. The final protester referenced Citizens United.pic.twitter.com/tak1mvfIq5
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Whitehouse pulls together Fed Soc, JCN, Pacific Legal Foundation and similar groups, and amicus efforts, with pro-corporate decisions to present a "tableau" that he says he finds troubling.
Lee is up. Starts by asking if he had communication with Fed Soc after Kennedy's retirement announcement. Kavanaugh says no.
Another abortion-related protester interrupts and is removed. The capitol police are getting noticeably rougher with their removal of protesters — pulling them by their full body quickly out of the side door of the room.
Klobuchar is up, and is talking about the staff sec docs and the withheld 100K pages. Klobuchar suggests a distinction b/w WH and DOJ SG records. "There's one executive branch," Kavanaugh says. [Enter your unitary executive pieces.]
On his view that CFPB is not constitutional, he notes the issue was particular to the fact that it was a "single director independent agency."
"I didn't throw the agency out," Kavanaugh says, noting that he just said the director could be replaced at-will by POTUS.
Klobuchar asks about campaign finance, noting his email questioning campaign contribution limits. See:https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/kavanaugh-documents-contribution-limits/index.html …
Kavanaugh notes that he upheld contribution limits in two cases.
Going for the troll win today, Cruz says that Garland and Kavanaugh have agreed in 93% of their opinions. He adds: - Garland joined 27 of 28 Kavanaugh panel opinions. - Kavanaugh joined 28 of 30 Garland panel opinions.
9th, 10th, 1st Amendment questions, including a follow-up relating to religious liberty.
Four protesters in a row, including one who specifically called out Sens. Collins and Murkowski — neither of whom are on the Judiciary Committee, so not in the room.pic.twitter.com/C5bn9GBf0o
Funny enough, this could be my tweet, too. We're on a coaching question here in the Judiciary Committee. https://twitter.com/TonyRomm/status/1037433747036168193 …
Coons is up. He's talking about Kavanaugh's comment that the independent counsel law was a "constitutional travesty." Kavanaugh leans on Kagan's comments in praise of Scalia's Morrison dissent, but Coons differs with Kavanaugh on his interpretation of her comments
Coons asks why Kavanaugh said he'd overrule Morrison, and didn't say something like Buck v. Bell or Korematsu. Kavanaugh had no really good answer. "Would you vote to overturn Morrison?" "I'm not going to say more —"
Kavanaugh is interrupted by a protester who says that’s why Kavanaugh was nominated — as in, his views on executive power and limits on investigations into presidents.pic.twitter.com/5h7bEdH1Pk
Coons, who has used his time to just go through the process of how government can look into allegations of executive wrongdoing, is moving on to investigations.
Kavanaugh, asked about criminal liability for a sitting president, says that "the Justice Department for 45 years ... has taken the position" that a sitting president can't be indicted.
Check out Cruz, when Sasse said he is sympathetic to protesters worried about whether Kavanaugh would be Trump’s puppet and wouldn’t hold the president accountable. (Sasse said he doesn’t think that, though, and that that’s why he’s likely to vote for Kavanaugh.)pic.twitter.com/02tI8VJ94m
Blumenthal is up, noting Trump's position as an unindicted co-conspirator to federal crimes, asking whether Kavanaugh would recuse himself from any case involving Trump's liability. Kavanaugh says part of his view of judicial independence means he will not take such a position.
Blumenthal says that Kavanaugh is ready to overturn Roe, taking aim at his use of the phrase "abortion on demand."
Kavanaugh talks a lot about Planned Parenthood v. Casey as the "precedent on precedent" abortion case, but I don't think I've heard him once mention Whole Woman's Health, the more recent, 2016 precedent — which addressed the "undue burden" substantively and significantly.
Blumenthal is talking about executive authority on prosecutorial discretion. Here's the Kavanaugh dissent they're discussing:https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-dc-circuit/1585226.html …
He's now moved on to guns, and is bringing up Kavanaugh's "common use" discussion from earlier.
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