Tuesday was the first day of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and things got off to a rocky start. "Kavanaugh actually has a long résumé," including a decade as a federal judge and years as a lawyer in the George W. Bush White House," Trevor Noah said on Tuesday's Daily Show. "But what makes his possible appointment so crucial isn't who he is but what he believes," Noah added, because his views are much more conservative than those of the man he would replace, Anthony Kennedy.
President Trump is pushing especially hard for Kavanaugh's confirmation, Noah said, suggesting one possible reason: "While he's being investigated, he nominates a guy who thinks presidents shouldn't be investigated. Like, Trump's not even hiding his evil plan. ... Now, people who are not under investigation by a special counsel might want to know more about Brett Kavanaugh, but they can't," he explained, because Republicans are blocking the release of hundreds of thousands of pages of documents.
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