Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings: Day 3 Real Time Updates

Welcome to Day 3 and…

This was supposed to be a parade of relatively predictable witnesses, but the Democrats apparently had something up their sleeve. Some people thought the Democrats should just take their ball and bat and walk out of the hearings. Personally, I thought it was better to stay and build the case against Kavanaugh by sticking to the process and meticulously building the case of GOP malfeasance through the hearings. Senator Leahy did exactly this when he straight up tricked Kavanaugh into admitting to the existence of emails that have no conceivable national security or confidentiality issue but are nonetheless designated confidential by Grassley under the time-honored standard that “confidential” means “looks bad for the nominee.” Words have meaning in textualism!

Well, that set the table and Cory Booker came in this morning with the feast, declaring that he’s going to violate the committee confidential process and risk censure or worse by leaking confidential documents about Kavanaugh’s views on racial profiling that had been marked as off-limits for public consumption. And that’s when the rest of the Democrats joined in and… well here we go!

Sen Feinstein up now up and putting Grassley's agreement with Burke to keep documents marked confidential in the record

Says there are no standing rules on how these documents are handled

— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018

Durbin pledges support for Booker and asks others to "jump in the pit" too.

— Joe Patrice (@JosephPatrice) September 6, 2018

What you do matters.

What you say matters.

No matter how big the fight

Or inevitable the conclusion seems

Stand up.

Speak up.

Wrong, temporarily victorious

Is never greater than Right, forever vigilant.

— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) September 6, 2018

Hirono going into confidential docs too.

— Joe Patrice (@JosephPatrice) September 6, 2018

The whole Leahy cross set the table for this. That whole exchange where he teased out that a document about stealing Dem emails had been marked confidential is how we get to "we're now leaking things that were improperly marked."

— Joe Patrice (@JosephPatrice) September 6, 2018

Lee says the Senate shouldn't even really have the committee confidential documents because they belong to the Bush White House

The Presidential Records Act respectfully disagrees

— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 6, 2018

Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings: Day 3 Real Time Updates curated from Above the Law