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Kavanaugh confirmation, the white house shared judicial material with republicans and not democrats? >> if i recall, there was some discovery issues in the kavanaugh case involving several years of his performance in the white house. which your own counsel decided -- >> that's disclosure to the whole committee. is there anything else that democrats have access to that you have not shared? in particular, the pre-sentence reports. if they were helpful, i suspect you would have made them available. >> the information that we received from the white house, i'm told, everyone had access to if they ...

Were you assigned that work as well? >> there was one detainee who i had represented as a federal public defender who was brought into my firm's practice, unbeknownst to me. when i arrived at the firm, the attorneys who were working on that case recognized that i had previously been a lawyer who had represented this particular detainee. and asked if i would help with his habeas petition at that stage. >> i think you clarified that earlier today. and you served as counsel of record on amicus briefs related to detention. >> yes. >> were you working on behalf of detainees or other groups or indiv...

For hawley to suggest that all she needs is a sentencing guideline is misinformed. and judge jackson threw it back to congress and said, you laid out factors for judges to consider. it doesn't stop at sentencing guidelines. we have actually factor in the circumstances and the nature of each case. you can't treat cases as a one size fits all. and judge jackson said, this isn't a numbers game. but let's just take this all back, ari. at the end of the day, there is a coalition, the national coalition against domestic violence. the nation's leading voice against domestic abuse, they endorsed judge...

Court has shown an increasing readiness to overturn precedent. this is true for longstanding ones and recent ones. there was a decision that weakened public sector decisions. justice alito said he wanted that to be challenged. this is called signaling. justice alito definitely signaled his desire to revisit that decision. so, yes, these groups, they got the message. they brought case after case to meet the criteria that justice alito laid out. although they came close in 2016, the court was stuck in a

Ruling. you can't ignore the fact that there is precedent in your district that handles a case in a particular way. and with respect to the mcgahn case, the precedent wasn't just close, it was nearly identical. the myers case involved the former white house counsel and the argument by the executive that the former white house counsel had absolute immunity with respect to a request by the legislature that she provide testimony. my case involved a former white house counsel who was claiming absolute immunity at the request of the executive in response to a legislaive subpoena. in both cases, not...