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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 3, 2018

In your concurrence in Klayman v. Obama, you went out of your way to say that not only is the dragnet collection of America's telephone records by the National Security Agency okay because it is not a search, you also said, and I did not…

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 3, 2018

The easy way to do that, ask the FBI to investigate.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 3, 2018

This is the most incomplete, most partisan, least transparent vetting for any Supreme Court nominee I have ever seen.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 3, 2018

Two days before the hearing, he told you that the Democrats were passing around a related '60 Minutes' story.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 3, 2018

In a way, it was considered by many, both Republicans and Democrats, as a digital Watergate.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 3, 2018

For Justice Kagan, we had 99 percent of her documents for her time at the White House, and, of course, we do not have--we have less than 10 percent of yours.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 3, 2018

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

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 3, 2018

But a check after the hearing is over is no check. I think we ought to at least have the National Archives finish it.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 3, 2018

I think this will be one of--someone sitting in this chair 10 years from now, I think the question of technology on Fourth Amendment, First Amendment, war powers, is going to be of central importance.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 3, 2018

I am trying to get a straight answer from you under oath. Are you the Bart O'Kavanaugh that he is referring to, 'yes' or 'no'?

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 3, 2018

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

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 3, 2018

Well, as you know--you know, it is a fact I voted for a lot of Republican nominees.

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Sep 3, 2018

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?

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Aug 23, 2018

as vice chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and I am sure I can also speak for the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, we appreciate this vote, so we can move forward. We have spent the last week on the Senate floor. But, what…

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Patrick Leahy
@patrickleahy· Democratic · VT· Aug 23, 2018

pursuant to section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the waiver provisions of applicable budget resolutions, I move to waive all applicable sections of that Act and applicable budget resolutions for purposes of the pending…

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