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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...

Independence of the judiciary. i need to follow that nominee precedent here. >> mr. chairman, could i ask the e-mail be made part of the record? >> pardon me? >> i would like to ask the e-mail be made part of the record. >> would be happy to do that. thank you. during your time in the bush white house, the administration took steps to limit women's reproductive choices. this included reimposing the global gag rule. trying to prevent the fda from making plan b contraception available over-the-counter. during your service at the white house, 2001 and to 2006, did you work on any issues related t...

And commit to recuse yourself. kavanaugh said that's what nominees do. >> judge kavanaugh has come up with nominee precedent. no predictions and no forecast and no hints. justice said the same thing. you don't ask a sitting judge or a nominee to make any commitments. it's not appropriate. the senator knows that. >> shannon: he spent 12 years on the federal bench as an appellate judge. he said he wakes up every day not ever thinking how can i rewrite the law today? he thinks how can i apply it as it is written. do you buy that? >> again, there are some cases with play in the law. the constituti...

To commit to recusing yourself and what brett cavanagh said is any case that may come before me for or against in any other way, that is what nominees do. i studied them and i will stick by this president. >> brett cavanagh has come up with nominee precedent. back to thurgood marshall, no predictions or forecasts or hints, no thumbs-up or thumbs down. you don't ask nor should you ask a sitting judge or nominee to make any commitment. it is not appropriate and the senator knows that. >> you spent 12 years on the federal bench and he wakes up every day not every thinking how can i rewrite the la...

Citizens united or heller or united states versus lopez, just the whole body of modern supreme court case law, i have to follow what the nominees who have been in this seat before have done. >> judge, a yes or a no will do. >> just if i can briefly explain. >> yes, you. >> i'll try to be brief. when you're in this seat, i'm not just sitting here for myself. i'm sitting here as a representative of the judiciary and the obligation to preserve the independence of the judiciary, which i know you care deeply about. one of the things i've done is studied very carefully what nominees have done in the...