The fundamental question that this committee refuses to ask itself is whether there's a role for publicly-elected officials to make some of these decisions.

That is astonishing. Mr. Carter and I have a bill in to get rid of it.

It seems that you may have intrigued him for another reason, your expansive view of Executive power and Executive immunity.

Mr. Chairman, if I might add to this, on the integrity of the documents we have received, there really is no integrity. They have alterations. They have oddities.

You should be sitting in front of us only after we have completed a review of your record.

These Republican staffers stole 4,670 files, and they used them to assist in getting President Bush's most controversial judicial nominees confirmed.

That is not fair to us, and, frankly, Judge, it is not fair to you.

Did you know that you were getting, from Mr. Miranda, stolen emails?

But look how you received it.

Whether it is or not, would you consider that somewhat unusual to be receiving from a Republican staff member something marked, 'Highly confidential,' telling him what he has found out that a Democrat is going to do?

I am concerned because there is evidence that Mr. Miranda provided you with materials that were stolen from me.

I said I believed her, but I am concerned that we are doing a lot less for these three women today.

Well, when you were in the White House, was part of your job to coach President Bush's judicial nominees how to answer Democrats' questions about Roe v. Wade?

For a lot of us it was.

I have never seen somebody that critical and not allowed to be here to--called to be testifying or an FBI background.

The Supreme Court is a guarantor of our liberties and our republic. Few, I would argue, are worthy of taking a seat.

We had 99 percent of her records from the White House that were made public 12 days--12 days--before the hearing.

You do remember what happened, do you not?