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Constitution including the right to privacy, rights to contraception, intimacy, abortion, marriage, the freedom to worship as we choose, the ability to participate in our democracy as full citizens and the promise of equal protection. that's because the cases that come before the court aren't just academic or he is tear rick or theoretical, they involve real people and have real and lasting consequences. with the stakes that high i deeply regret the process that's gotten us to this point, the excesses and partisan gamesmanship in the last few years and that history bears briefly repeating. whe...

Dad was doing? >> wisdom in minnesota. congratulations, judge, on your nomination. actually, congratulations and condo condolences. this process has to stink. i'm glad your daughters could get out of the room. i'm glad they still get the free day from school. good news, bad news. the bad news first. judge, since your nomination in july, you've been accused of hating women, hating children, hating clean air, wanting dirty water. you've been declared a quote/unquote existential threat to our nation. alumni of yale law school. faculty members at your alma mater praised your collectisele. this dri...

We are better than proceeding with a nominee without engaging in a full and a transparent process. this committee is failing the american people by proceeding in this way and i fully support the motions made by my colleagues earlier in this hearing and regret that we proceeded without observing the rules of this committee. that said, judge kavanaugh, i have reviewed the parts of your record that i've been able to access and what i've been able to see from available speeches, writings and decisions and i have to say it troubles me. while serving on the bench you've dissented at a higher rate th...

Point. the supreme court becomes our substitute political battleground. it's only nine people. you can know them. you can demonize them. you can try to make them messiahs. ultimately, because people can't navigate their way through the bureaucracy, they turn to the supreme court looking for politics. knowing that our elected officials no longer care enough to do the hard work of reasoning through the places where we differ and deciding to shroud our power at times, it means that we look for nine justices to be super legislators. we look for nine justices to try to right the wrongs from other p...

That's been rendered impossible. the majority has blocked access to millions of pages of documents from your service in a critical role in the white house. for the first time since watergate the nonpartisan national archives has been cut out of the process for reviewing and producing your records. senate republicans have worked to keep committee confidential nearly 200,000 pages of documents so that the public can't view them and we can't question based on them. and your former deputies in charge of designating which documents this committee and the american people get to see. not only that, b...