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Kavanaugh’s Rough Start

The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Donald Trump’s second nominee to the high court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, got off to a rocky start this morning with protests and Democratic senators’ calls for the hearing to be delayed.

The nominee, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, said the court “must never, never be viewed as a partisan institution,” as he closed out the first day of hearings.

“The justices on the Supreme Court do not sit on opposite sides of an aisle,” Kavanaugh told the committee. “They do not caucus in separate ...