U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, just before noon on Friday blasted her Republican colleagues on the Judiciary Committee for pressing ahead with Judge Brett Kavanaugh‘s confirmation.
The senior Democratic Senator from Minnesota, usually collegial and even-tempered, expressed outrage over Thursday’s hearing.
“I look at it, what are you hiding? What would it hurt?” she said, of having the FBI re-open its background check into Kavanaugh, and investigate the claims of sexual misconduct made by at least three women accusers.
“What I have heard today just adds to this,” Sen. Klobuchar told Republicans.
“When I heard this sanctimonious talk, about some kind of a political strategy,” by Democrats, she said, “well, I’ll give you exhibit A: Merrick Garland, who was delayed for nearly ten months.”
“You talk about a nominee getting off the floor when all we are asking for is one week for an investigation, and you kept Garland away from this committee for ten months. That’s not even a comparison,” she said, flabbergasted.
“That was a strategy yesterday. Boy was it a strategy,” she charged.
Over the course of several hours Thursday a visibly angry Judge Kavanaugh attacked Democrats, warned them, “what goes around comes around,” called the proceedings a “circus,” and even suggested Senator Klobuchar might have a drinking problem. (He later apologized to her for that attack.)
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