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For revenge, some of the republican commentators today are crowing about the fact that they believe kavanaugh has been radicalized by this experience, and they hope he behaves as a anti-democratic vengeful radicalized judge on the bench. what should we look to in history in terms of understanding how the public may view the court in that context? because its still our supreme court, even if it does change with his elevation. >> yeah. the court loses respect for itself, it loses legitimacy. often...

Seen the last couple years -- couple of weeks, that could suggest that the court is going to go in a very different direction. >> if the court does go in a very different direction, if kavanaugh does behave on the court in the way that he seemed to be threatening in that angry statement last week, where he is talking about what goes around, comes around. >> what goes around, comes around. >> against democratic senators on the left, anger in his statement, if that is borne out in terms of his beh...

Court, if he goes up there for revenge, some of the republican commentators today are crowing about the fact that they believe kavanaugh has been radicalized by this experience, and they hope he behaves as an anti-democratic vengeful radicalized judge on the bench. what should we look to in history in terms of understanding how the public may view the court in that context? because its still our supreme court, even if it does change with his elevation. >> yeah. the court loses respect for itself...

Remarkable that orrin hatch was also there to slander anita hill and hes still at it. youri youri youre right, public opinion has changed. the republican party if its changed has only been for the worse. >> what we have right now is the brute illegitimate of white male patriarchal power against the express wishes of the majority of the people in this country. the elevation of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court is likely to make this problem of minority rule, which i think is the single politic...

"washington post" concludes, rightly, that with the sort of rhetoric regardless of how angry he was that sort of rhetoric, which was calculated, which he himself said he wrote, nobody else wrote, he tore up the notes that somebody else wrote for him, those were his partisan words. they were calculated. he wrote them himself and as a judge he certainly understood the weight of every word that was put in that statement. so the "washington post" coming out today editorializing against his elevation...

Should not confirm kavanaugh. it was signed 650 plus law professors and counting. the letter reads in part, "judicial temperament is one of the most important qualities of the judge. as the congressional research service explains, a judge requires a personality that is even-handed, unbiased, impartial, courteous, yet firm and dedicated to a process, not a result. the concern for judicial temperament dates back to our founding." goes on to say, "were law professors who teach, research and write a...

The beginning of the show. that is apart from the allegations of sexual assault, the allegation of sex sual assault, more than 1,000 law professiors have signed this letter. judge brett kavanaugh displayed a lack of judicial temperament that would be disqualifying for any court and certainly for elevation to the highest court of this land. do you agree from a legal end from what you saw and is that germane to this? >> i do agree. we have never seen a supreme court nominee behave that way. it is ...

Brett kavanaugh displayed a lack of judicial temperament that would be disqualifying for any court. and certainly for the elevation to the highest court of this land. quote, we have differing views about the other qualifications of judge kavanaugh, but we are united as professors of law and scholars of judicial inconstitutions in believing he did not display the judicial temperament requisite to sit on the highe esest court. that published just tonight in "the new york times." over 650 law profe...

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May have been accused of throwing some ice across a college bar. >> reporter: republicans say kavanaughs drinking habits in high school and college are ntrelevant. cbs news has confirmed those habits will not be a focus of e-e one-week f.b.i. investigation. democrats argue kavanaughs answers on the topic were misleading. >> the quote that jumped out at w was "brett was a sloppy drunk and i know because i drank with him." >> i do not think thats a fair characterization. he reporter: the f.b.i. is...