The confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh, the unindicted co-conspirator's Supreme Court nominee, is opening Tuesday morning with protests and demands for adjournment from Democratic senators who are incensed over a last-minute release of tens of thousands of documents Monday night, giving senators no time to review them.
Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) demanded that Chairman Chuck Grassley adjourn the hearing until senators had time to review the documents, a request Grassley repeatedly refused. While Democrats were objecting, crowd members protesting Kavanaugh's nomination erupted.
Trump has claimed executive privilege to withhold well more than 100,000 documents, though not with the committee which Sens. Leahy and Whitehouse raised as a point of order. Grassley is unilaterally hiding 141,000 pages from the public by designating them as "Committee Confidential" to try and prevent Democratic senators from asking questions related to them.
Grassley is setting dangerous precedent here, trying to push through a Supreme Court nominee under a massive cover-up.
Grassley refuses to vote on Blumenthal’s motion to adjourn and Harris’s motion to postpone, or Booker’s motion to move to executive session. Breaking the rules of the committee.
Grassley resisting the vote because Democrats have the majority right now—Republicans Graham and Crapo aren’t there.