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

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What a week.

What a week.

And if you're just starting listening now,

I urge you to go back to at least listen to the prior two days.

Because my, Lanta, these hearings are bananas.

I mean, starting off with Corey Booker and his, this is Sparta moment. I mean, my God, can you tell us about what went on with Corey Booker this morning?

Wow. Has it been a day? And like yesterday, it is still going. We are not even done. Grassley just announced that senators are going to get a third round of questioning tonight. So we are strapped in for a long one. So how did it start? Let's talk about maybe real quick how it ended last night. Last night, there was a big fight about documents that sort of carried over. And we've talked about that fight in our other episodes of the podcast. So folks can go back and listen to those

and get all caught up on the details. What happened was Booker said effectively that there was

email evidence that Kavanaugh had said some very not nice things about racial minorities and had

endorsed racial profiling in certain instances and had taken positions when he was in the Bush White House to try and roll back race conscious affirmative action programs.

And during his testimony without this email, Kavanaugh had really hemmed in hawed and said, boy, I don't remember a lot of that.

And maybe there was some stuff, but I was kind of just a paper pusher and so

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