Richard Blumenthal

I think that you needed to send a message to the Trump administration that you should be on that list.

Can you commit, sitting here today, that you would never overturn Roe v. Wade?

You were telling the Trump administration that if they wanted someone who would overturn Roe v. Wade, you would make the list.

Abortion on demand, as you know, is a code word in the anti-choice community.

The Government's insistence that it must not even stand back and permit abortion to go forward for someone in some form of custody is freakishly erratic.

Well, I do disagree, and I am troubled and disturbed by your refusal to say that you will take yourself out of that kind of case.

I am not asking for a particular commitment, and I am going to take your answer as a 'no.'

I would like your commitment that you will recuse yourself if there is an issue involving his criminal or civil liability coming before the United States Supreme Court.

There is a distinct possibility, even a likelihood, that issues concerning his personal criminal or civil liability may come before this Supreme Court as early as the next term.

The President of the United States who has nominated you is an unindicted co-conspirator implicated in some of the most serious wrongdoing that involves the legitimacy of his Presidency.

I will be asking, Judge Kavanaugh, whether you believe Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided.

I will be asking you, Judge Kavanaugh, whether you believe Roe v. Wade was correctly decided.

I have fears about what this nominee will do with respect to our rule of law, but also about basic rights.

All of these documents will come out. They will come out eventually, as soon as 2019 and 2020.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The reason is that no administration in the past has engaged in this kind of concealment.

I have made a motion that is properly before this Committee.

We are asking simply that that precedent be followed, Mr. Chairman.

I ask for a vote on my motion to adjourn under Rule IV, Mr. Chairman.

Simply saying so, with all due respect, and I have great respect for the Chairman, does not make them so.

Mr. Chairman, if there is no vote on this motion which has been properly seconded and which could be given a vote in executive session, this process will be tainted and stained forever.

It is to say, Majority, give us the time to do our work so that we can have a positive and comprehensive hearing on the man who may well be the deciding vote for many of America's futures.

I really regret this, but I think you have to understand the frustration on this side of the aisle.

To go into this hearing without those documents is an undermining of the constitutional role to which we have all sworn an oath to uphold.

There is no valid claim here of executive privilege. Even if there were one, it has not been properly asserted.