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We are in a political environment in which there are no rules, no norms anymore to violate. There is only power, and the individual judgments of individual senators—facing whatever political pressures they face, calculating political gain however they do it, and consulting their consciences to the extent they have them.
As much as I admire Kavanaugh, my conscience would not permit me to vote for him.
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— Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare editor-in-chief and senior fellow at the Brookings Institute describing his assessment of the Kavanaugh confirmation at this point. Wittes describes his long, friendly relationship with Kavanaugh and his neutral feelings about Kavanaugh’s jurisprudence but concludes that he cannot support a nominee who behaved the way Kavanaugh behaved in last week’s hearing.