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    1. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      9th, 10th, 1st Amendment questions, including a follow-up relating to religious liberty.

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    2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      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

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    3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      Chris Geidner Retweeted

      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 …

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    4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      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

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    5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      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 —"

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    6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      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

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    7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      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.

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    8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      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.

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    9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      Unitary Executive Time!

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    10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      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

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      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

      In other news: Sasse is up.

      1:58 PM - 5 Sep 2018
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        2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          E?

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        3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          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.

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        4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Chris Geidner Retweeted Kimberly Robinson

          We're on to Garza.https://twitter.com/KimberlyRobinsn/status/1037457878192463872 …

          Chris Geidner added,

          Kimberly RobinsonVerified account @KimberlyRobinsn
          Replying to @KimberlyRobinsn
          @senblumenthal says describing Roe as "existing" Supreme Court precedent (as Kavanaugh did in Garza case) is like referring to your wife as your "current" wife.
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        5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Blumenthal says that Kavanaugh is ready to overturn Roe, taking aim at his use of the phrase "abortion on demand."

          2 replies 20 retweets 58 likes
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        6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          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.

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        7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          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 …

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        8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          He's now moved on to guns, and is bringing up Kavanaugh's "common use" discussion from earlier.

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        9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Grassley is defending Kavanaugh unprompted again, noting a time when Kavanaugh ordered the president to enforce a law. So. OK.

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        10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Flake is up. "What people do you admire and why?"

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        11. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          [Narrator: He's got a NYT op-ed at the ready.]

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        12. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Justices that Kavanaugh says he admires ... Kennedy, Scalia, Rehnquist, Robert Jackson, and Thurgood Marshall.

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        13. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Flake asks about constraint on the executive, noting his issues with Trump. Appropriations power, Senate confirmation power, the "ultimate remedies" — impeachment and expulsion — and "there are statutes that regulate" presidential and executive actions. "There are norms."

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        14. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Flake asks about the Trump tweets on DOJ prosecutorial decisions. Kavanaugh: “I don’t think we want judges commenting on the latest political controversy.”

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        15. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Hirono is up, and is talking about Kozinski.

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        16. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Of the decades-long period of allegations against Kozinski, and despite Kosinski and Kavanaugh’s friendship — Kozinski introduced Kavanaugh at his 2006 confirmation hearing — Hirono says: “You saw nothing, you heard nothing, and you obviously said nothing.”

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        17. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          She then asked if he knew about the allegations against Rob Porter. He also says he did not know about them.

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        18. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Crapo is up.

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        19. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Sen. Kennedy is chairing currently, as we head into the dinner recess. Sen. Booker is up at 8p. (I’ve relocated, btw.)pic.twitter.com/bKRoPybyLh

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        20. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          We're back. And Booker is up, talking about affirmative action.

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        21. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Booker: "Is it never permissible for government to use race to redress past discrimination?" Kavanaugh: "The Supreme Court has said —" B: "I know what the Supreme Court has said. I want to know what you think." He's tried this a few times, and Kavanaugh keeps going back.

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        22. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Chris Geidner Retweeted Greg Stohr

          Note —>https://twitter.com/GregStohr/status/1037494541358690304 …

          Chris Geidner added,

          Greg StohrVerified account @GregStohr
          Here is the story in which Kavanaugh predicts the Supreme Court will soon say "we are all one race in the eyes of government." pic.twitter.com/7kgw7KFrMB
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        23. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Booker: Do you think diversity in higher education is a compelling interest? Kavanaugh: The Supreme Court says it is. Booker: [Sigh.]

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        24. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          The look when Tillis cut in to question Booker’s handling of his questioning.pic.twitter.com/S32wA1nZSa

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        25. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Booker is ending on voting rights, and voter ID.

          1 reply 11 retweets 121 likes
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        26. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Booker: "Your answers don't provide me comfort."

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        27. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Lee says Booker was referring to "committee confidential" documents. Booker counters that the process is "rigged" b/c there's no reason an email about racial profiling should be comte confid. Lee says he agrees; doesn't know why it was marked comte confid.

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        28. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          That was a kinda remarkable exchange. Lee basically disclaimed the secrecy here, said he had nothing to do with the decision to make the docs comte confid and didn't think that one should be.

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        29. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Again, this is, in part, a result of the unprecedented way the documents are being handled. It isn't NARA making the first call and then presidents, former and current, objecting. It's just GWB's office making the first call, and then letting DOJ direct that more be kept secret.

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        30. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Sen. Kennedy is now up.

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        31. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 5

          Cameras in the courtroom. Kavanaugh says that others oppose it, so he’s wanting to back off until he’s there, “if I’m lucky enough to be there.” He then begins to add a caveat: “As to the decisions, if I were starting — I think I’ll stop there.” Sounded like he’d be OK w that!

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