Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's past rulings matter far more toward the decision whether to confirm him than do documents from his time serving under President George W. Bush, Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley, who is presiding over the proceedings, said Wednesday.
"It's irrelevant to his being a judge," Grassley told "CBS This Morning," explaining that the best way to judge how he'll act is to consider the cases he's already heard.
"He has had 307 cases," said Grassley. "That's the best judgment for knowing who should be on the Supreme Court."
Grassley's introducing remarks were interrupted on Tuesday by Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Richard Blumenthal, who demanded the hearings be moved because there had not been adequate time to access the documents they feel necessary to review Kavanaugh's fitness for the Supreme Court.
Several protesters were also arrested, and on Wednesday, as soon as Grassley began speaking to resume the hearings, yet another protester began shouting.
Meanwhile, he said it will be "questionable" for Kavanaugh to answer some questions in testimony on Wednesday, including if he would rule on restoring states' rights to regulate early term abortions, as he would not know what the states would pass that he'd have to vote on.
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