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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NOTE: Today's hearing began 12 hours ago.
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Harris asks about Griswold and Eisenstadt. He talks about the court and Pierce and Meyer. She says she's asking what he thinks. He continues talking about the cases. Eventually: "I think Justice White's concurrence is a persuasive opinion. ... I have no quarrel with it."
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Then, on a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy, he demurs, going back to his unwillingness to answer that. Harris then asks if there are any laws that give the gov't power to make decisions about a male body? He says he can't think of any.
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Here's that oddly unresolved Harris/Kavanaugh exchange on Mueller's investigation and Kasowitz —>https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1037514830490607617 …
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"I do follow election law blogs," Kavanaugh says. Cc:
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Tillis is up. (My goodness. I thought we were done.)
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Tillis: "Are you Judge Kozinski?" So, you can see where this is at.
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Tillis is ignoring all of the other work that Kavanaugh and Kozinski did together since, including working to vet Kennedy's clerks and the fact that Kozinski introduced Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing. He then said that Democrats should be asking Paul Watford questions.
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Tillis is now asking about opinions when Kavanaugh ruled in ways he didn’t like: for Hamdan, for Emily’s List, against the RNC, against Sec. Rice ...
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Tillis says that some people are concerned about Kavanaugh’s views on LGBT issues but says that Kavanaugh while in the White House counsel’s office ... once attended a meeting to talk to Log Cabin Republicans. So, OK?
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And, at 10:08p, we recess for the night. The committee will be back for a 20-minute round at 9:30a.
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Hope you all enjoyed that 13-hour thread!
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It sounded like it was a Committee Confidential exchange with Mueller or an exchange by Kavanaugh with someone that was involved in Mueller's investigation that came up during
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We all do. Unfortunately, he’s nervous. BPM is very high. And he cannot answer truthfully.
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Same!?
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