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

I do not think it has ever been the case in a hearing like this that the Members of this Committee have to pre-clear what we propose to query the nominee about. I think that is totally unprecedented.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

It is regular order for us to receive all the documents that this Committee is entitled to.

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.

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

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

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?

this process of advice and consent is really a job interview, certainly not a criminal trial.

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

I could see him as the leader of the 5-to-4 that would enhance Presidential powers.

The prosecutor should know that sexual assault survivors often do not remember peripheral information, such as what happened before or after the traumatic event.

Does character matter? Do our values, our real values about what is right and what is wrong and about whether we treat our fellow human beings with dignity and respect, do they matter anymore?

my colleagues on the other side are accusing the Democrats of some sort of political conspiracy

We all know that the prosecutor, even though this clearly is not a criminal proceeding, is asking Dr. Ford all kinds of questions about what happened before and after, but basically not during the attack.

I pointed to an op-ed that had been written by two former White House staff secretaries, John Podesta and Todd Stern, entitled 'Staff Secretaries Aren't Traffic Cops: Stop Treating Kavanaugh Like He Was One.'

I think there is a pattern of that kind of decisionmaking by Judge Kavanaugh.

I expect Judge Kavanaugh to make similar promises over the next few days, only to do, sadly, the exact opposite if confirmed.