A trio of Senate Democrats lambasted their Republican colleagues and Judge Brett Kavanaugh ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, saying the actions of their counterparts have been solely about exercising “raw power.”

“From the beginning, it should not be about raw power, influencing the outcome of a decision that is about not only a statement about what we hold as being precious and important about our system of justice, but who will sit for a lifetime on the United States Supreme Court,” Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., told reporters Friday. “And this has been about raw power. You’re seeing that on display in this hearing this morning. You’ve been seeing it from the process from the beginning.”