U.S. State Attorneys General

If Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed, we will have the most pro-Presidential-powers Supreme Court in the modern era.

There are hundreds and hundreds of cases that States have passed that limit the woman's right to choose.

I think it was so fundamental that he mischaracterized or misstated the issue.

Nothing about us without us.

President Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh to break the tie.

So, do you believe that a Justice should be able to make it easier to overturn or even--overturn even well-established Supreme Court precedent by simply giving notice that he or she has concerns about that precedent?

I am particularly troubled that the five Justices in Janus claimed, 'It did not matter that public sector unions have relied on the Abood case for decades.'

The Supreme Court, as Justice Kagan put it, has been 'weaponizing the First Amendment in a way that unleashes judges now and in the future to intervene in economic and regulatory policy.'

The Janus decision is important here because it shows your nomination fits in a larger campaign that groups like the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation have been waging for decades.

I am particularly sorry that he singled out one of our colleagues on this side and accused him of conduct unbecoming a United States Senator.

By what right, by what authority can Mr. Burck possibly designate a document as 'committee confidential'?

I completely agree with you. I concur with what you are doing, and let us jump into this pit together.

I wanted to set the record straight on a matter that was brought up late last night with regard to me and my questioning of Judge Kavanaugh and his relationship to Judge Kozinski.

Judge Kavanaugh, why do you rarely dissent on behalf of consumers, workers, or the powerless?

It is hard to find a Federal judge more conservative than Brett Kavanaugh.

You talked about the importance of precedence.

I think that my colleagues from Alaska should be deeply troubled by your views.

Your view is that Native Hawaiians do not deserve protections as indigenous people under the Constitution.

They do not have their own government. They do not have their own elected leaders. They do not live on reservations or in territorial enclaves. They do not even live together in Hawaii.

Perhaps if all those situations or those processes had been in place over the 30 years that Judge Kozinski was engaging in this kind of behavior, maybe he would have stopped, but he did not.

I do not think this was a coincidence.

Judge Kozinski's behavior was egregious and pervasive. It went on for more than 30 years.

I started asking these questions about sexual harassment because it is so hard to hold lifetime appointees to the Federal bench accountable, and because I did not want the #MeToo movement to be swept under the rug.

Your failure to do so would reflect a fundamental mistrust of the American people.