Now that Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, Democrats have been reluctant to accept defeat.

Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, who serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, went on ABC News and made the case that Kavanaugh deserves an asterisk, because he was accused of sexual assault by multiple women and was still confirmed by a majority vote in the Senate — in other words, that he’s somehow illegitimate as a Supreme Court justice.

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