Hello fellow law nerds.

Welcome to another special confirmation hearing episode of Boom Lawyer, a rewire.

Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is getting a little bit sleepy,

but it's only Wednesday, so we're going

to persevere. I'm Imani Gandy. And I'm Jess Peeklo. Rewire. News is the leading non-profit

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welcome to our new listeners. Welcome to our new listeners and thank you for the feedback we got

from yesterday's episode. A lot of you said it really helped and we hope to help more today by

talking about some straight up courtroom drama that happened during the confirmation hearings

this morning. Jessica, tell us all this drama going on with Senator Leahy and these stolen emails.

Dun dun dun.

Oh, man, this is good stuff.

Okay, so by way of context, today's hearing is a little bit different than yesterday's and

that it is much less of a dog

and pony show senators have 30 minutes apiece to ask Kavanaugh questions and go back and forth and

so during his allotted time senator Leahy who has been on the judiciary committee forever

since like 1394 something like that like he might be a founding member anyway he had the

opportunity to question brett not brent brett brett cabinor the first time around when cavanaugh was

nominated to his spot on the dc circuit court of appeals and the TLDR on that is that Leahy and some of the other Senate Democrats feel like

Kavanaugh was less than forthcoming during that initial testimony. And so that was back in 2006,

right? Yeah, correct. That was 2006, thanks. Yeah. And so one of the areas they think that Kavanaugh was less than forthcoming was about his role in judicial nominations under the Bush administration and sort of what he did. Well, it turns out that while Kavanaugh was working in the Bush White House and helping shepherd through judicial nominations

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