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I invite all Members of the Committee to submit to me by noon, August the 28th, a list of document control numbers specifically identifying committee confidential documents, or documents publicly released with redactions, that a Member…
Your testimony yesterday over a nearly 30-hour day made very clear that you have a strong command of the law.
I would like to suggest for the purpose of the SCOTUS nomination that all of us waive any right to the Speech and Debate Clause.
Shame on us. Not shame on them that they do not understand that because we are not doing that basic civics.
One of the fundamental problems about not understanding the limits on Executive power is that we are not doing a very good job of talking together in common.
We should have a lot more unum, a lot more unity about what we think the role of the judge is.
Immunity is not--not the correct word, and I do not think anyone thinks of immunity.
If we are doing civics right in America, we should be seeing fewer and fewer political disputes trying to be settled at the Court.
We have to follow the Presidential Records Act, and that is what we are following, is the law.
There is also the question of independence from the legislative branch, equally as important.
Democratic Senators interrupted the hearing 63 times before lunch, and in the audience, 70 people were arrested yesterday.
The judiciary must continue to be the least political and least dangerous branch.
It was our time, as Committee Members, yesterday to make our case. Today is different.
I want everybody to know that right now, so that Members and their staff can be working on written questions throughout the week.
I just believe what we are doing here, just on the objective view of fairness, is sincerely unfair and is insulting to the ideals that we try to achieve with some sense of comity and some sense of rules.
It just seems unfair to me, and it could easily be solved by us putting a pause here in this process, waiting for the documents.
You probably heard the first sentence of something I said after our break, and that was, that I first started talking about expecting a million documents, and we end up, I think, with 488,000.