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During his confirmation hearing. >> i cannot support your nomination not just because of the body of your work but the perverse process by which this comes forward. >> im concerned your loyalty would be to the president who appointed you and not to the constitution of the united states. >> reporter: cory booker and, harris wasting no time using the for them to get their names out. booker sent a fundraising email during the hearing. despite hundreds of thousands of documents being released democr...

Body of your work but the perverse process by which it comes forward. >> im concerned your loyalty would be to the president who appointed you and not to the constitution of the united states. jillian: cory booker wasting no time seemingly using the form to get their names out, but to put out a fundraising email during the hearing. democrats created a supreme court sideshow over unreleased documents from brett kavanaughs tenure in the george w. bush administration, national political reporter sa...

From ongoing investigation prosecution will shake the faith that millions and millions of americans have in the fairness of the system. ive asked judge kavanaugh time and time again to recuse himself to restore that faith, to alleviate the concerns of americans and he has thus far refused to do so. now, i am upset about the process, and this is not manufactured outrage, this is sincere concern for a process that seems wrong and just not objective and fair. i am concerned about, as my colleagues ...

Their record and would want the american people to see it. i would think that anyone privileged to be nominated to the supreme court of the united states would want to be confirmed in a process that is not under a cloud, that respects due process. i would think that anyone nominated to the supreme court of the united states would want to have a hearing that is characterized by transparency and fairness and integrity and not shrouded by uncertainty and suspicion and concealment and doubt. we shou...

Talking to, senator mccain gave me a hard talking to and all made similar points about this idea that you need to be as pobt testify as possible and sisi how you would react if the pendulum was swung the other way. they warned me in this place what goes around comes around. ive been struggling with that, sir, with all honesty of what would the republicans be saying and what we would be saying if we had a democratic president right now, a democratic nominee right now and this process was in the r...

I say to you, with sincere respect, that this is an absurd process. it just seems unfair to me and it could easily be solved by us putting a pause here on this process, waiting for the documents, evaluating the documents and it will be a much more robust set of hearings on this nominee. as i said, i would not hire an intern if i had not seen -- if i had only seen 10% of their resumé. here to have a fuller body of the work of this gentleman before us, who as one of my colleagues called popping u...

Unbiased or are we prepared to participate in a process that is tainted and that leaves the american public questioning the integrity of this process. and ill close by saying this, we have a system of justice that is symbolized by a statute of a woman holding scales and she wears a blindfold. justice wears a blindfold because we have said in the united states of america under our judicial system, justice should be blind to a persons status. we have said that in our system of justice, justice sho...

Individual rights as the rise of corporations, the rise of dark money, the rise of the interests of the powerful and the privileged and the elite. i just say in conclusion, sir, i said this to you in a heart to heart moment in the last seconds that you came to my office to meet with me one-on-one, which i appreciated, i pointed to the map behind my desk which is the central ward of newark, new jersey, a place with mighty people, its a low income community, people still struggling for the fullnes...

Going. in other words, after the president was in jeopardy. he was added to the list and then the president pulled the one person from all of that list that it was added late that would give him in a sense the ability to pick a judge that has already spoken vastly about a presidents ability to be prosecuted, about a presidents ability to dismiss or end an investigation. so thats the second reason why i have asked for us to put a pause on this process. fundamental to this nations very beliefs, ju...

They have been going through regular water and will get rid of that and bring in this p perverse process, a secretive legislation that hasnt been open to the public for long. they will try to rush it through with no hearings, no bipartisan conversations, no common work but just try to shove it through on the floor and the creating a par rrk pa parol for those on the fence. >> one of the strangest things on this bill and i agree, in someways its the most distantly astounding is the bizarre distri...