If I had to pick an area of clear expertise when it comes to Brett Kavanaugh, it would be the area of judicial nominations.

the Second Amendment is not a suicide pact? We ought to make America safe

Do not ever give up. Those other forces may be big, but this is still our country.

Judge Kavanaugh believes that the basic problem with the structure of government today is that the President has too little power and that Congress has too much.

It is in the context of the Trump Presidency that we ask you these questions, in anticipation that you may face issues involving this President which no other Supreme Court has been asked to face.

Let us bring them in, here and now.

I stand by the public's right to have access to this document and know this nominee's views on issues that are so profoundly important, like race and the law, torture and other issues.

Even if Roe v. Wade is not overturned, there are going to be many cases that will continue to come before all of the courts.

The polluters have almost as much dominion around here in Congress as the NRA does.

thank goodness in the United States of America, where we venerate free speech, these things can happen.

this is one of the costs of democracy, and it is one which the Senate Judiciary Committee... should value even when it is inconvenient.

I think we are entitled to all records, and I think the public is entitled to all records that are appropriate.

This is a one-sided place, and the forces that have the most money and that make the most money are able to use it here.

the statute was viewed by the Congress when it reconsidered it in 1999 as being unrestrained, unaccountable, impermissible, and the statute was not renewed

The result would be a super-powerful President, a diminished Congress, and a corrosion of the checking and balancing that the Constitution contemplates.

I am not aware of any Circuit that follows your test, the history and tradition test.

The National Archives is usually the starting point of this process.

We are at a moment where the President has shown contempt for the Federal judiciary unlike any President we can recall.

Just Senator Durbin's words--unrestrained, unaccountable, unconstitutional.

unchecked, unbridled, unrestrained, and unaccountable authority.

But as for White House documents, you are breaking new ground here, or I should say covering up old ground here.

I have made clear in my writings that a court order that requires a President to do something, or prohibits a President from doing something under the Constitution or laws of the United States is the final word in our system, our…

You are alone. You have admitted you are alone.

Not only is this statement inexplicably tone deaf, it is also inconsistent with reality.

This extreme theory could give the President total control over the actions and decisions of any executive branch official.