Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., will not be meeting with Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, saying doing so would be an “empty” and “deceptive charade.”

Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement he hadn’t been planning to meet privately with Kavanaugh and “certainly will not” do so following the conviction of Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, and guilty plea from Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney.