You have given America an amazing teaching moment.

So, you are saying, no, you have had no discussions. You have not talked to anyone in the White House about Robert Muller or the special counsel investigation.

Thank you, Senator Kennedy.

We are dealing here with a lifetime appointment. Nothing we do here is more serious than confirming a Justice on the United States Supreme Court.

President Trump's attacks on the judiciary have been blatant, craven, and repeated.

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.

I am deeply troubled by the attacks on our judiciary and most especially from the President of the United States.

I am more than happy to hear the rest of your answer.

You have dodged the question. You have ducked it. It is the same question again and again and again.

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

Assault weapons were designed to kill people, were they not?

You have inspired and enlightened America.

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

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

But assault weapons are equally destructive, and the evidence for them is equally compelling, that is, the evidence for a ban on assault weapons, which is what the majority in Heller II in your court found, did it not?

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.

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

attacks by public officials, and I am not going to mince words--by the President of the United States--on our independent judiciary are a disservice to judicial independence and the integrity of our judicial system.

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.

She is a hero in this country, a warrior. She has stood for many, many great things.

As a Federal judge, you always want the best evidence, don't you?

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

Do you think the President of the United States has that unilateral authority to nullify protection for Connor?

The President may decline to enforce a statute that regulates private individuals when the President deems the statute unconstitutional, even if a court has held or would hold the statute constitutional.

The test that you are imposing here is out of touch with the real world and the impact on real lives.