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    1. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

      Blumenthal is asking about whether Kavanaugh had any discussions about the special counsel with White House officials.

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    2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

      Kavanaugh sort of says no, but gave a hedging answer. Blumenthal asks the Kasowitz question. "I'm pretty confident the answer is no."

      2 replies 21 retweets 67 likes
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    3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

      Chris Geidner Retweeted Kimberly Robinson

      More on that —>https://twitter.com/KimberlyRobinsn/status/1037800646756446208 …

      Chris Geidner added,

      Kimberly RobinsonVerified account @KimberlyRobinsn
      Blumenthal accuses Kavanaugh of dodging questions about whether Kavanaugh has talked with anyone in White House re: the Mueller investigation. Kavanaugh says he's "pretty confident" he's never had convo re: Mueller investigation with anyone at Trump-affiliated law firm.
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    4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

      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.

      1 reply 10 retweets 54 likes
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    5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

      This looks exactly how this week feels.pic.twitter.com/Xq93LxoRgg

      1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
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    6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

      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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    7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

      "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.

      2 replies 29 retweets 85 likes
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    8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

      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.

      0 replies 21 retweets 61 likes
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    9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

      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.

      8 replies 68 retweets 161 likes
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    10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

      "The answer is no," he says. Harris says that she wishes he could have been so clear last night. "In my — nevermind," he responds, cutting himself off.

      9 replies 32 retweets 73 likes
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      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

      Harris raises Kennedy's legacy on LGBT rights, and specifically the Obergefell majority opinion — asking whether it was correctly decided. Kavanaugh pivots to Masterpiece Cakeshop: "The days of discriminating against gay and lesbian Americans are over," he says he paraphrases.

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        2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Kavanaugh says he is declining to answer about his personal view of Obergefell.

          4 replies 28 retweets 44 likes
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        3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          On family separations, Kavanaugh says he can't comment because it's pending litigation and he's a sitting judge.

          3 replies 22 retweets 35 likes
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        4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Harris raises the 1889 case around the Chinese Exclusion Act, and he dodges, raising Korematsu instead. —> https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/130/581 …

          2 replies 24 retweets 44 likes
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        5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          He will not answer as to his view on the travel ban.

          1 reply 24 retweets 52 likes
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        6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Kavanaugh also will not answer as to his view on Whole Woman's Health — despite the fact that he talked about Casey and Roe, and WWH is the most recent robust precedent in that line of cases.

          5 replies 82 retweets 230 likes
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        7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          When he declines to comment, he reiterates language from earlier in the hearing about not commenting on current or recent decisions, saying it's similar to how other SCOTUS nominees have handled such questions and fits within his personal view of judicial independence.

          4 replies 13 retweets 32 likes
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        8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          They're going to do a third round: Eight minutes per person. But Grassley basically says that he hopes the Republicans don't ask questions in that round.

          2 replies 11 retweets 27 likes
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        9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Chris Geidner Retweeted Sarah Posner

          Cornyn, going last in the second round, starts off by suggesting that questions about the Federalist Society are like McCarthyism.https://twitter.com/sarahposner/status/1037842962045128704 …

          Chris Geidner added,

          Sarah PosnerVerified account @sarahposner
          Why is Cornyn talking about Joseph McCarthy
          5 replies 14 retweets 46 likes
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        10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          OH: “It just feels really late in the day to be talking about Chevron.”

          5 replies 7 retweets 47 likes
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        11. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Durbin focused on gun rulings in his third round. Feinstein is up now.

          0 replies 5 retweets 29 likes
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        12. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Despite Grassley’s request that Republicans skip their turns, Hatch took a brief turn after Durbin and now Kennedy is up.

          0 replies 4 retweets 19 likes
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        13. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Leahy has given his 8 minutes to Hirono, so Grassley has given Leahy some of his time to speak. Leahy thanks him and says he’ll be brief.

          1 reply 5 retweets 37 likes
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        14. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Whitehouse is questioning whether Kavanaugh is limiting US v. Nixon to trial subpoenas through his descriptions in a way that would give him an “out” to treat a grand jury subpoena differently. Kavanaugh says he was just characterizing the decision.

          2 replies 12 retweets 42 likes
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        15. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Cornyn is up.

          1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
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        16. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Mike Lee talked about federal lands, but had no question on that point, and Kavanaugh’s Sharpie that he is using to take notes. So that’s that on that. Now up, Klobuchar.

          3 replies 3 retweets 20 likes
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        17. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          BTW, Kavanaugh said he was using a Sharpie so he could see his notes in the hearing room. (Honestly, practical and made sense!)

          0 replies 2 retweets 12 likes
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        18. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Klobuchar brings up Chevron, and even *she* acknowledges this isn’t a headline-grabbing topic, saying she read his view in a certain situation as wishing for de novo review — and then added a joke about her having the attention of everyone still watching at home.

          1 reply 8 retweets 19 likes
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        19. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Blumenthal is up. “I’m asking you to reconsider your dissent in Heller II,” he says, signaling a new, more resigned-to-Kavanaugh-becoming-a-justice approach. He’s trying to reason with him this round, not just question him.

          2 replies 6 retweets 21 likes
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        20. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Hirono is asking about Janus and the implications of the First Amendment-based rationale for overturning precedents.

          1 reply 8 retweets 26 likes
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        21. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Sasse is up: His child wants to know if Kavanaugh is afraid of poisonous spiders and Sasse himself ... is worried about liberals on campus.

          4 replies 8 retweets 32 likes
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        22. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Booker is up. After saying he wouldn't fire someone based on their race or sex, Kavanaugh only broadly says he hires people based on their qualifications when asked about whether firing people because they're gay is OK.

          1 reply 15 retweets 33 likes
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        23. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Pressed further, Kavanaugh won't answer about his moral views on anti-gay discrimination due to pending litigation on the scope of civil rights laws.

          2 replies 10 retweets 33 likes
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        24. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          On his time working in the Bush White House, Kavanaugh won't say whether he ever shared his opinions on same-sex marriage. K: "There was debate in the White House about what President Bush was doing." B: As for now, "Have you officiated a gay marriage?" K: "I have not."

          0 replies 11 retweets 27 likes
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        25. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Flake is up. (I honestly need this to end.)

          3 replies 1 retweet 50 likes
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        26. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          I've run two half-marathons, whereas Kavanaugh has done two marathons. That's why I am breaking before him.

          5 replies 0 retweets 19 likes
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        27. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Chris Geidner Retweeted emptywheel

          I'm not writing in all-caps, but, yeah, that was ... a disquieting moment.https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1037882848181665792 …

          Chris Geidner added,

          emptywheel @emptywheel
          CORNYN HAS NO FUCKING CLUE THAT NUMBER OF TRIALS ARE GOING DOWN?!?!?!?!
          2 replies 8 retweets 42 likes
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        28. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Harris is up. She's starting on Trump's recent DOJ-related tweet.

          1 reply 8 retweets 52 likes
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        29. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Harris is talking about affirmative action, asking why courts should decide when the country has reached a point where it's unnecessary. Kavanaugh doesn't directly answer, but says, "We still have, as I've said in my opinions, work to do" as to race-based discrimination.

          1 reply 8 retweets 22 likes
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        30. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          Harris asks about HBCUs and federal funding and how that would be affected by such a time. He talks about the importance of HBCUs.

          1 reply 1 retweet 19 likes
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        31. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 6 Sep 2018

          / Regarding Trump's tweets about DOJ, Kavanaugh said he wasn't going to comment because it was in the political realm. /

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