On Capitol Hill, highly chaotic confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh began Tuesday, as protesters repeatedly interrupted the proceedings.
Linda Sarsour: “This is a mockery and a travesty of justice! This is a travesty of justice! We will not go back! Cancel Brett Kavanaugh! Adjourn the hearing!”
Protester: “We need you to be a hero! Be a hero! Cancel this hearing!”
Judge Brett Kavanaugh is President Trump’s pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy. Democratic senators on the committee also repeatedly interrupted Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Charles Grassley to ask him to halt the hearings and allow time to pore over information contained in a last-minute dump of thousands of documents from Kavanaugh’s time in the White House Counsel’s Office. The Trump administration is also withholding more than 100,000 pages of Kavanaugh’s records on the basis of presidential privilege. We’ll have more on the first day of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings after headlines.