11. Patrick Leahy, “Kavanaugh’s Long, Long Record,” New York Times, July 24, 2018, A21.
12. Stephen Bates, “Brett Kavanaugh and the Starr Report: How Our Office Drafted the Impeachment Referral,” LawFare, July 13, 2018, https://www.lawfareblog.com/brett-kavanaugh-and-starr-report-how-our-office-drafted-impeachment-referral.
13. Yuval Levin, “The Kavanaugh Paper Flow,” National Review, July 11, 2018, https://eppc.org/publications/the-kavanaugh-paper-flow/.
14. “Questionnaire For Nominee to the Supreme Court,” United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Brett%20M.%20Kavanaugh%20SJQ%20(PUBLIC).pdf, 63.
15. “Judge Roberts’ Judiciary Committee Questionnaire,” United States Senate Committee on the Jusiciary, 54–59, on CFIF.org, https://www.cfif.org/htdocs/legislative_issues/federal_issues/hot_issues_in_congress/supreme_court_watch/roberts-judiciary-questionnaire.htm.
16. “Questionnaire For Nominee to the Supreme Court,” United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Neil%20M.%20Gorsuch%20SJQ%20(Public).pdf.
17. “Grassley: Kavanaugh Review Will Be Thorough and Fair, but No Taxpayer-Funded Fishing Expedition,” Committee on the Judiciary website, July 18, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/grassley-kavanaugh-review-will-be-thorough-and-fair-but-no-taxpayer-funded-fishing-expedition.
18. “Democratic Leaders on Judge Kavanaugh,” C-SPAN via archive.org, July 31, 2018, https://archive.org/details/CSPAN_20180731_232900_Democratic_Leaders_on_Judge_Kavanaugh/start/120/end/180.
19. Thomas McKinless, “Senate GOP Stacks 167 Boxes to Illustrate Amount of Kavanaugh Papers Getting Released,” Roll Call, August 2, 2018, https://www.rollcall.com/video/senate_gop_stacks_167_boxes_to_illustrate_amount_of_kavanaugh_papers_getting_released.
20. Jordain Carney, “Schumer: Share ‘confidential’ Kavanaugh documents with entire Senate,” The Hill, August 20, 2018, https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/402771-schumer-share-confidential-kavanaugh-documents-with-entire-senate.
21. Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley), “SenSchumer, as chair I welcome any senator 2 stop by judic cmte any day (& nite) incl wknds 2 review cmte conf docs A desk is waiting +there r the hundreds of thousands docs already avail w/ more all the time Is nom now under consideration or is vote still pre-determined NO?” Twitter, August 20, 2018, 2:38 p.m., https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1031656659167404032.
22. Burgess Everett and Elana Schor, “Schumer, Democrats wrestled over staging mass Kavanaugh walkout,” Politico, September 4, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/04/kavanaugh-democrats-supreme-court-hearing-806567.
23. The transcript of the hearings will be quoted throughout this chapter. “Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court,” CQ Transcriptions, September 4, 2018.
24. Frank Thorp (@frankthorp), “Sources tell @Kasie and me that this is a coordinated effort by Senate Dems on the Judiciary Committee, and that it was discussed during the holiday weekend on a call organized by Schumer,” Twitter, September 4, 2018, 7:01 a.m., https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1036977514281934853.
25. Everett and Schor, “Schumer, Democrats wrestled.”
26. CNN Politics (@CNN Politics), “GOP Sen. John Cornyn says this is the first Supreme Court confirmation hearing that he’s seen being carried out ‘according to mob rule,’ adding that it’s ‘hard to take seriously’ when Democrats have ‘already made up their mind before the hearing,’ ” Twitter, September 4, 2018, 7:44 a.m., https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1036988415844208640.
27. Marbury v Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803).
28. Virginia Kruta, “Kavanaugh’s Hearing by the Numbers, Straight from Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah,” Daily Caller, September 4, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/04/kavanaughs-hearing-numbers-raj-shah/.
29. Elizabeth Landers, “Meet the protestors interrupting Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing,” CNN, September 5, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/kavanaugh-hearing-protests/index.html.
30. Eugene Gu (@eugenegu), “Kavanaugh’s former law clerk Zina Bash is flashing a white power sign behind him during his Senate confirmation hearing. They literally want to bring white supremacy to the Supreme Court. What a national outrage and a disgrace to the rule of law,” Twitter, September 4, 2018, 12:44 p.m., https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1037063912896643072.
31. Dylan Matthews, “No, a former Kavanaugh clerk didn’t flash a ‘white power sign.’ Here’s what really happened,” Vox, September 5, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/9/5/17821946/white-power-hand-signal-brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearing-zina-bash-4chan.
32. Eli Rosenberg and Abby Ohlheiser, “Zina Bash Moved her Hand—and the #Resistance saw a white power symbol. Then she did it again,” Washington Post, September 8, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/09/04/that-was-no-white-power-hand-signal-at-the-kavanaugh-hearing-zina-bashs-husband-says/?utm_term=.c29628288213; Mahita Gajanan, “A Kavanaugh Supporter Was Accused of Making a White Power Symbol. She’s a Descendant of Holocaust Survivors,” Time Magazine, September 5, 2018, http://time.com/5386860/zina-gelman-bash-white-power-symbol/.
33. Ed Whelan, “Refuting Anti-Kavanaugh Smears—Manny Miranda Controversy,” National Review, September 10, 2018,