Democrats inject chaos into Brett Kavanaugh hearing with delay demands

By Steven Nelson

Published September 4, 2018 2:12pm ET

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Democrats inject chaos into Brett Kavanaugh hearing with delay demands — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, from left, Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and other minority members, appeal to Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to delay the confirmation hearing of President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, on Capitol Hill. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Democrats repeatedly interrupted the opening of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination hearing Tuesday morning in a failed bid to delay proceedings.

Democrats cited the release of approximately 42,000 pages of documents Monday evening from Kavanaugh’s work in the George W. Bush White House, and a further 100,000 pages that have not been produced because the White House asserted executive privilege.

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