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Agents does ever be good enough to satisfy democrat leaderships in washington who staked out opposition to judge brett kavanaugh before he was even nominated. there is simply no reason then to deny judge brett kavanaugh a seat on the supreme court on the basis of the evidence presented to us. the democratic strategy used against judge brett kavanaugh has made one thing clear, they will never be satisfied no matter how fair and thorough the process is. 31 years ago, the senate democrats' treatment of robert bourke, their play book remains the same. for the left wing, advice and consent has beco...

And their senate allies engaged in unprecedented smear campaign against judge robert bourke. as mark pullum said over the weekend, the bourking of robert bourke taught special interest groups that they could demonize judicial nominees based solely on their world view. worse character assassinations proved an effective tactic nearly sinking justice clarence thomas's appointment four years later. but he also said continuing to quote, by confirming judge kavanaugh, the senate can go some way toward atoning for shameful treatment of justice robert bourke 31 years ago, end of quote. judge kavanaugh...

Up. >> yeah, i think of this as the the myth of the surprise president. its that, the, idea that, that presidents turn out to be surprised. if you look at all nine justice thousands, and, i would include kennedy in this. there are no surprises on the court. that the scrutiny that goes on today is different from the scrutiny that went on even when george herbert walker bush nominated david souter in 1990. the justices are picked because of how they're going to vote. if you look at the four democrats, kagan, ginsburg, breyer came out, true for robert, true for, thomas, and kennedy. remember kenn...

Retirement of the 79-year-old justice so significant is the special role that he played on the court. >> since louis powell put on the robe 15 years ago, it was often his vote that made the difference. whether voting conservative as president nixon hoped when he appointed him, or liberal, powell has been the so-called swing vote. the court didn't change much when ronald reagan named sandra day o'connor and antonin scalia had roughly the same person he replaced, warren berger. but powell's departure gives president reagan his first big chance to shift the court solidly to the right. >> louis po...

>> since louis powell put on the robe 15 years ago, it was often his vote that made the difference. whether voting conservative as president nixon hoped when he appointed him, or liberal, powell has been the so-called swing vote. the court didn't change much when ronald reagan named sandra day o'connor and antonin scalia had roughly the same philosophy he replaced, warren berger. but powell's departure gives president reagan his first big chance to shift the court solidly to the right. >> louis powell unexpectedly announced his retirement in 1987 on the final day of the supreme court's term th...