Agree. The Leahy-Coons-Booker exchanges demonstrate that the "Committee Confidential" document issue is real and substantive and must be resolved if Kavanaugh is to be truly evaluated. The Harris examination at the end was perhaps the most devastating of the day.
But something else was exposed today that was disturbing. The willingness of Kavanaugh to do more than filibuster. He deliberately conflated or confused, or misstated terms or facts of cases to avoid reconciling unpleasant aspects of his decisions or writings
Like pretending that Ms.Garza had not fully & properly used the judicial bypass to obtain an abortion before he sought to require a "sponsor" to "counsel" her. Or that the DOJ guidance against subjecting a sitting President from indictment, also means protection frm investigation
That although he used the term "racial spoils" in a WSJ op-ed in precisely the way it is often used by opponents of affirmative action & white supremacists, that he was unfamiliar w/the term or didn't know what it meant.
That he didn’t full-on suggest that U.S. v Nixon might be erroneous and should be reconsidered. That he didn’t gleefully mean he would overturn Morrison when he vowed to “put the nail in the coffin.”
The icky downplaying of his relationship with Judge Kozinski who was his mentor and friend.
I found Judge Kavanaugh’s performance to be very revealing to anyone really paying attention.
