President Donald Trump criticized protestors who interrupted his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing Tuesday in an exclusive Oval Office interview with The Daily Caller.
“I’m amazed that people allow the interruptions to continue,” Trump said of the multiple protestors who interrupted the first day of the proceedings, adding, “There [are] some people that just keep screaming.”
Trump praised Senator Orrin Hatch’s condemnation of the protestors from the hearing, adding, “I don’t know why they don’t take care of a situation like that. I think it’s embarrassing for the country to allow protestors. You don’t even know what side the protestors are on.” – READ MORE
[divider][/divider]Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) slammed his Democratic colleagues for interrupting the opening of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing Tuesday morning.
As Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) attempted to deliver his opening statement, multiple Democratic senators interjected, including Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).
Whitehouse said one would be hard-pressed to find any court in the country that would not give a party litigant a continuance when the opposite party did a massive document dump after close of business the night before a trial.
Cornyn fired back at Whitehouse’s suggestion that the hearing be handled as if it were a court of law.
“I would suggest that if this were a court of law that virtually every member on the dais on that side would be held in contempt of court, because this whole process is supposed to be a civil one, where people ask questions and we get to get answers,” Cornyn said. – READ MORE