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If Brett Kavanaughs confirmed to the Supreme Court it will have profoundly negative effects on workers rights, Womens Rights and Voting Rights for decades to come. All i can say within an hour and 18 minutes of your nomination, you became the biggest threat to democracy. In the eyes of some of the most partisan people in the country who would hold kagan and sotomayor up as highly qualified and would challenge any republican, vote against them. You live in unusual times as i do. You should get more than 90 votes but you wont, and i am sorry it has gotten to where it has. Its got nothing to do a...

To then sit in judgment later on in a case, the hamdan case, which you alluded to earlier where the defendant was osama bin laden's personal bodyguard and driver. he was captured by u.s. forces in afghanistan after 9-11 and detained in guantanamo bay. he subsequently went through a military tribunal. that case was appealed to your court. just correct me if i'm wrong, but not withstanding the experience you and everybody you cared about having been through this terrible travesty of 9-11, you ruled in favor of osama bin laden's body guard and driver, correct? >> that is correct. i wrote the majo...

As an independent judge, bound to follow the laws written, the precedents of the supreme court, as articulated, subject to the rules, and i would do so. >> okay. you were appointed to the d.c. circuit by george w. bush. i think it is fair to say, you were close to president bush. you worked for him for a number of years. can you give us some example of cases in which you ruled against the bush administration, notwithstanding that president bush was the one who put you on the bench? >> senator, the most prominent example is the hamdan case. that was the military commissions case. it was a signa...

Writy for a different audience. no constraints. i suspect judge kavanaugh would do a similar thing. maybe one tactic, judge, you said judge me by the 300 opinions i've written. okay. go through them. talk about the guardsa abortion opinion. talk about the heller opinion. there's a lot, this is a judge within a very long established body of work. today he tried to say, look, i will be independent. look at the hamdan case. my case, didn't argue in front of him but it was a pretty easy case that doesn't tell us much about his independence. nice he rebuked the bush administration on that and it ta...

Lawyer. you've been look noog this guy. what about him? >> mr. fidell is one of the founders of the national institute of military justice. one of the interesting things about him is that he's kind of created a career on his own in terms of putting in amicus briefs to court of appeals. amicus means a friend of the court brief. he's been a friend of the court trying to protect the right of so-called terrorist detainees, enemy combatants. in several cases, the hamdan case, and others, he's spoken out on behalf of detainees, enemy combatants, at guantanamo bay. >> he's been -- he is used to worki...