He failed to establish that judicial independence. He has the right rhetoric, would be defended in practice, in real terms with real backbone, and that is the reason -- or one of them that I am committed to vote against him.
On the recordSeptember 5, 2018
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Blumenthal expresses his commitment to vote against Kavanaugh due to his failure to defend judicial independence.
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