Brett Kavanaugh faces third day of Supreme Court confirmation hearings amid escalating document dispute

Democrats seeking to put hurdles in Brett Kavanaugh’s path to the Supreme Court took another shot Thursday, questioning his views on abortion, racial justice and presidential power and complaining that 190,000 pages of documents were withheld from public view.The multiple challenges to President Donald Trump's nominee failed to knock Kavanaugh off his talking points before the Senate Judiciary Committee, leading Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, to predict flatly, "You're going to get confirmed."

After a 12-hour marathon session Wednesday that the 53-year-old federal appeals court judge survived largely unscathed, the third day of the confirmation hearing began with a bitter dispute over documents. Democrats have complained about getting no documents for three years of Kavanaugh's career, and even 190,000 pages released to the committee have been withheld from public release.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, said he would flaunt Senate protocol and release an email elucidating Kavanaugh's views on racial profiling. “I stand by the public’s right to have access to these documents,” he said.

Another confidential email concerning abortion was leaked toThe New York Times. It shows that in 2003 as a White House associate counsel, Kavanaugh said many scholars did not consider the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide in 1973 "settled law."