Live blog of confirmation hearing | September 4, 2018
We are live-blogging the first day of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Pardon if this is a dumb question, but when Senators ask likely future-Justice Kavanaugh questions, do they alternate by what party a Senator belongs to? As in first a Republican would ask questions first, then a Democrat and so on. Or is it at Chairman Grassley's discretion?
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Kevin Russell discusses the law review article that makes the arguments Klobuchar is referencing in this SCOTUSblog post:
Kavanaugh on presidential power: Law-review article on investigations of sitting presidents (UPDATED) - SCOTUSblog
SCOTUSblogSenators considering President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court will undoubtedly be giving a close read to a law-review article the judge published in 2009, entitled “Separation of Powers During the Forty-Fourth Presidency and Beyond.” The article has already e -
I'm back in the room a few minutes late. Chairman Grassley doesn't kid around. Taking my somewhat secret shortcut to the Dirksen cafeteria, I ran into Kavanaugh's wife, Ashley, and his parents in a hallway. Farther down the same hallway, a loud anti-Kavanaugh protest was going on, not anywhere particularly near the hearing room.
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Klobuchar: You dissented from ruling upholding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I plan on asking about this. (Here's Sarah Harrington's blog post on this dissent)
Kavanaugh on the executive branch: PHH Corp. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - SCOTUSblog
SCOTUSblogJudge Brett Kavanaugh wrote two opinions in PHH Corp. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: a panel opinion declaring an aspect of the bureau to be unconstitutional and an opinion dissenting from the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s decision overruling his pane -
Klobuchar also expresses concern about his net neutrality ruling (discussed by Eric Citron in this post)
Kavanaugh on net neutrality: U.S. Telecom Association v. Federal Communications Commission - SCOTUSblog
SCOTUSblogOne of the opinions from current Supreme Court nominee and D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh that has garnered significant attention is his 2017 dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc in the net-neutrality case, U.S. Telecom Association v. Federal Communications Commission. A majority of the -
Klobuchar: My dad convinced me to spend a morning in a courtroom watching a routine calendar of criminal cases. It was nothing glamorous, but it was important. I realized that morning that behind every case there is a story and a person, no matter how small. Each decision the judge made affected that person's life.
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Sasse: The reason these hearings don't work is not because of Donald Trump. They have worked for 31 years. This is a 31-year tradition. There's nothing new the last 18 months. The hysteria is coming from the fact that we have a misunderstanding about the role of the Supreme Court in American life.
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Sasse: 1. Legislative branch is center of politics. 2. It's not. Why? Because of authority delegated to the executive administration. 3. This transfer of power means people yearn for a place where politics can actually be done. Hence, the Supreme Court as substitute political battleground. 4. We need to restore the proper duties of constitutional system.
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Sasse: The Supreme Court becomes our substitute political battleground. Because people can't navigate the bureaucracy, they turn to the Supreme Court. We look for nine justices to be super-legislators. When people say they want empathy from justices, they are wanting justices to take up the political role.