Senate confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s conservative nominee for the supreme court once again descended into chaos on Thursday, as Democrats insisted documents exposing Brett Kavanaugh’s opinions on contentious issues were being withheld from the public.
Just minutes before the judiciary committee gaveled into session for the third day of hearings, the New York Times printed leaked confidential documents from Kavanaugh’s stint in the George W Bush White House, in which he questioned whether the Roe v Wade decision on abortion was the “settled law of the land”.
