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Patrick Leahy

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Patrick Leahy is a former United States Senator from Vermont, serving from 1975 until 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the longest-serving senator in Vermont's history and held significant leadership roles, including President pro tempore of the Senate. Throughout his tenure, Leahy was known for his work on issues such as civil liberties, health care, and environmental protection. He played a key role in various legislative efforts, including the Violence Against Women Act and initiatives to reform the criminal justice system.

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Sep 3, 2018

I said I believed her, but I am concerned that we are doing a lot less for these three women today.

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Sep 3, 2018

That is not fair to us, and, frankly, Judge, it is not fair to you.

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Sep 3, 2018

Did my staff ever send you confidential material from Senator Hatch that was stolen from his emails?

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Sep 3, 2018

Well, when you were in the White House, was part of your job to coach President Bush's judicial nominees how to answer Democrats' questions about Roe v. Wade?

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Sep 3, 2018

I thought it was a digital Watergate. He stole 4,670 computer files from six Democratic Senators.

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Sep 3, 2018

I had various States for district court. I had Illinois. I had California I worked on with Senator Feinstein and Senator Boxer's staff; Maryland, Senator Sarbanes and Senator Mikulski.

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Sep 3, 2018

I want Judge Kavanaugh to have access so that we can ask him these questions under oath and he can see them.

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Sep 3, 2018

Now, may--you said everyone agrees the pardon prerogatives of a President, absolute, unfettered, unchecked power to pardon every violator of every Federal law.

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Sep 3, 2018

It seems that you may have intrigued him for another reason, your expansive view of Executive power and Executive immunity.

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Sep 3, 2018

I have never seen somebody that critical and not allowed to be here to--called to be testifying or an FBI background.

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Sep 3, 2018

You do remember what happened, do you not?

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Sep 3, 2018

Two days before the hearing, he told you that the Democrats were passing around a related '60 Minutes' story.

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Sep 3, 2018

Whether it is or not, would you consider that somewhat unusual to be receiving from a Republican staff member something marked, 'Highly confidential,' telling him what he has found out that a Democrat is going to do?

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Sep 3, 2018

This is the most incomplete, most partisan, least transparent vetting for any Supreme Court nominee I have ever seen.

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Sep 3, 2018

For Justice Kagan, we had 99 percent of her documents for her time at the White House, and, of course, we do not have--we have less than 10 percent of yours.

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Sep 3, 2018

In your concurrence in Klayman v. Obama, you went out of your way to say that not only is the dragnet collection of America's telephone records by the National Security Agency okay because it is not a search, you also said, and I did not…

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Sep 3, 2018

You should be sitting in front of us only after we have completed a review of your record.

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Sep 3, 2018

I trust the American people, I want them to trust me, I am prepared to disclose those public documents

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Sep 3, 2018

Which is a warrantless surveillance program.

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Sep 3, 2018

We had 99 percent of her records from the White House that were made public 12 days--12 days--before the hearing.

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Sep 3, 2018

Mr. Chairman, if I might add to this, on the integrity of the documents we have received, there really is no integrity. They have alterations. They have oddities.

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Sep 3, 2018

Well, as you know--you know, it is a fact I voted for a lot of Republican nominees.

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Sep 3, 2018

Today, with this hearing, it is not being the conscience of the Nation.

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Sep 3, 2018

I would be amazed if somebody handed me a memo saying this is a confidential memo that Senator Grassley's staff has prepared for him.

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