A fight over access to documents consumed the first hour of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, as Senate Democrats and a host of protesters interrupted the marathon proceedings.

Senate Democrats pushed to delay the hearing at its outset, raising objections to the release Monday of 42,000 pages of documents and citing the more than 100,000 pages withheld by the White House because of executive privilege.

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