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Process was contentious and emotional. that process is over. my focus now is to be the best justice i can be. i take this office with gratitude and no bitterness. on the supreme court, i will seek to be a force for stability and unity. every american can be assured that i will be an independent and impartial justice, devoted to equal justice under law. >> kavanaugh is easily the least popular nominee since robert bourque. just 41% believe he should be on the court, while 51% say no. the president takes every chance to defend kavanaugh at every one of his appearances, and he no doubt will this ...

Innocent. and then from the conservative movement standpoint, fair or not, conservatives believe that this is a long trend that started with robert bourque and then the attacks on clarence thomas and now with kavanaugh they wait until after the hearing and then come forward -- i'm just telling you how conservatives view it. >> but why didn't it happen with neil gorsuch? >> because neil gorsuch doesn't change the court. he was replacing scalia. th this appointment will move the court rightward and i'm not surprised at all that democrats would be interested in keeping the seat. >> all right. tha...

Contested issues matter. also about u.s. v. nixon, he's been critical of that case in the past so i think he was trying to insulate himself from the claim he was too deferential to presidential power by embracing u.s. v. nixon but the nutritional content of the testimony yesterday was on the order of saltines, i would say. >> here's what else, i don't know, he did not take a position on, some really big questions. can a sitting president be forced to respond to a subpoena, can a president pardon himself? can a president fire a prosecutor who is currently investigating them? but the thing is --...

In unprecedented smear campaign against judge robert bourque. as mark mullpullium said in an ed, the borqing of robert bourque showed they could demonize solely on their world view. worse character assassinations proved attacking nearly justin thomas' appointment four years later. he also said, continuing to quote, by confirming judge kavanaugh, the senate can go some way towards atoneing for its shameful treatment of justice robert bourque 31 years ago, end of quote. judge kavanaugh is one of the most qualified nam knees if not the most qualified nominee i've seen a graduate of yale law

Appalling when we're talking about a lifetime seat on the supreme court. there's nothing to do with the giving party or the seasons that we may be living in, in terms of who is up and who is down politically. >> that's exactly right, reverend. here we have, everything is on the line. literally everything is on the line of the we have a conservative's conservative supreme court justice pick that is politically toxic because we see that in a recent poll where kavanaugh is seen as one of the least popular supreme court justice picks that we have seen in decades. i think the only person that least...