Durbin calls on Kavanaugh to push for delay of confirmation hearing

Published September 4, 2018 4:40pm ET



Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., urged Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday to seek a delay in his own confirmation hearing until his full White House record is released.

“There are many people who are watching carefully. I might make a suggestion to you today, and it won’t be popular on either side of the aisle,” Durbin said Tuesday. “If you believe that your public record is one that you can stand behind and defend, I hope that at the end of this, you will ask this committee to suspend until we are given all the documents, until we have the time to review them, and then we resume this hearing.”

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