A big sign I’ll be watching for will be whether Grassley starts off today by letting Kavanaugh attempt to clean this up.
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The other big sign, obviously, will be whether Harris comes back to this — with any more info — today. That likely won’t come until the afternoon, though.
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@ZoeTillman, who is over on the Hill today for the hearing, although I’ll be watching along from the office — and on@AM2DM in a bit to talk about all of this.https://twitter.com/zoetillman/status/1037691799521898497?s=21 …
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We're starting today on the document debate. —>https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1037697509932650498 …
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Whitehouse follows up, saying the "committee confidential" decision was not a voted rule and he doesn't accept it. "This rule does not exist," he says.
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"Court can always overrule its precedent" is actually the key there, IMO. That was certainly not the view Kavanaugh expressed yesterday at the hearing.https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1037701075682385920 …
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Durbin: "I want to understand how Bill Burck" gets to decide what's is treated as "committee confidential," akin to something classified or top secret. "He has no authority to do that."
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Oh, Klobuchar is pulling out the Madison "farce or tragedy" quote. https://www.loc.gov/resource/mjm.20_0155_0159/?sp=1&st=text …pic.twitter.com/LJ7XENY1ig
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@AM2DM.https://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1037710191016517632 …Show this thread -
Kavanaugh makes clear, detailing DC Circuit's experience, that he is not opposed to — but is cautious about — live audio or even video of arguments, but is supportive of live audio or video of decision announcements.
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Hatch gives Kavanaugh the opportunity to follow up on the Kasowitz firm question from Harris, and Kavauagh said, "I haven't had any inappropriate conversations with anyone" about Mueller's investigation.
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Here's that full clean-up answer from Kavanaugh this morning about whether he talked with anyone at the Kasowitz firm about Mueller. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/kamala-harris-and-brett-kavanaugh-had-a-very-weird-exchange …pic.twitter.com/oIVxeni3nA
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More on the Kasowitz question from Sen. Lee’s time —>https://twitter.com/zoetillman/status/1037751773937774593?s=21 …
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Bush lawyer responds to this morning’s move by Sen. Booker re: “committee confidential” documents.pic.twitter.com/7KkNUWWZUk
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"I look at Professor Hasen's Election Law Bog." - Kavanaugh says, explicitly naming
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(I published a Hasen article back when I was editor of the Ohio State Law Journal in ‘04-‘05, so I am an old-school Hasen reader.)
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Coons is talking about presidential power —>https://twitter.com/fordm/status/1037784522853572608 …
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Blumenthal is asking about whether Kavanaugh had any discussions about the special counsel with White House officials.
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Kavanaugh sort of says no, but gave a hedging answer. Blumenthal asks the Kasowitz question. "I'm pretty confident the answer is no."
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Humphrey Dumphrey sat on a board / Humphrey Dumphrey had a great fall / All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humphrey back on the FTC again. So Humphrey's Executor took over / And sued FDR.
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Kavanaugh says he saw Bill Burck at a social event after his nomination, but that is it. "I have not communicated with him beyond that," he says. As to people helping him prepare for the hearings, he won't say if they've been in touch w/ Burck regarding the documents.
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"This is an issue for the Bush Library," Kavanaugh says. The Bush Library is not turning over the documents being reviewed. The Office of George W. Bush, and the office's lawyer, Bruck, is turning them over.
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Earlier today, I asked Burck to share any guidance he was given on how to make the recommendation as to which documents should be categorized as "committee confidential." He has not provided any such guidance.
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Sen. Harris is up and says she had received "reliable information" that he had been a part of a conversation about Mueller's investigation with someone from the Kasowitz firm.
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