Chris Coons: Kavanaugh’s Testimony Before the Committee ‘Was Deeply Troubling’

‘It was striking’

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COONS: "There were a number of ways in which Kavanaugh's testimony before the committee was deeply troubling. This was one exchange. Another was an exchange that I had with him about presidential power. Judge Kavanaugh in his speech to the American Enterprise Institute just two years ago volunteered when asked that of all the cases in American history, was there any one he would overturn. He paused for a moment, sort of looked at the camera, there was a pregnant pause, everyone chuckled. And he said, no, wait, there is one. And he didn't say the Chinese exclusion cases, he didn't say Korematsu, he didn't say Buck v Bell, these are three cases taught to first year law students that haven't been overturned, that are just despicable cases that expressed previous attitudes of discrimination."

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