Following Olson, Alicia Baker, sitting next to him, testifies emotionally about her insurance company not covering her birth control option, an IUD that she says ended up costing her and her husband $1,200, despite Obamacare.pic.twitter.com/xGwsxJKarE
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Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean talked about Kavanaugh's expansive views on presidential powers and the dangers of having a significant part of Kavanaugh's record hidden from the committee.pic.twitter.com/nDNfgz6ZHy
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@adamjwhitedc is up, talking admin law, so tune in now!pic.twitter.com/dmbIo7vmAZ
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Up now,
@petermshane, giving a more professorial view of the executive power questions that John Dean mentioned. [Disclosure: I'm a Buckeye, though I never had Shane as a professor.]pic.twitter.com/ovA0gvElX6
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Note: I think Shane gave us our first mention of the Emoluments Clause during the hearing!
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Shane asks about Kavanaugh's role while staff secretary in advancing the Bush White House's extensive use of signing statements. Note: We didn't get Kavanaugh's papers from his time as staff secretary, because Grassley deemed them "irrelevant."
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Per Grassley, we've had 31.5 hours of hearing time thus far for Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing.
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On Nixon's resignation, Dean says: After getting caught in lies about his knowledge of wrongdoing & knowing he'd face impeachment & removal, he resigned b/c "the man, at his core, had a respect for the rule of law." Of Trump, though: "He could care less about the rule of law.pic.twitter.com/pCdYRf08IZ
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Sen. Kennedy to John Dean: "You did the right thing eventually, but you only did so when you were cornered like a rat." Dean: "I tried internally to end the cover-up; I didn't succeed."
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4:15 p.m., Sen. John Kennedy (sitting in as acting chair): "With that, these hearings are adjourned."pic.twitter.com/eF9MIDXoRz
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Kennedy did go up to Dean after to say something, so I guess this could be the start of a beautiful friendship.pic.twitter.com/YMOSrn3daS
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WITH THAT, THE KAVANAUGH CONFIRMATION HEARING IS DONE. Thanks, all, for the RTs, follows, shares, comments, trolling, and conversations this week!
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Note: In addition to Kavanaugh's non-opposition to audio/video of SCOTUS arguments and his support for audio/video of SCOTUS decision announcements, there also was this today, from SCOTUS advocate Paul Clement —>https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1038158760567554049 …
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“It would be a travesty if [
#Kavanaugh] doesn’t get 100 votes”? Get real. A “travesty” is a highly qualified centrist nominee getting *no* votes because the birds of#Kavanaugh’s ideological feather denied him even so much as a hearing. That, Ms. Mahoney, is a travesty.pic.twitter.com/va1izCgt1U
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I almost gagged on the 100 vote thing.
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I GOL'd (groaned)
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Brace for a travesty.
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