INTERVIEW — HANS VON SPAKOVSKY @HvonSpakovsky —  former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Justice Department,  former commissioner for the Federal Election Commission from 2006 to 2007, and senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation  — recapped the Kavanaugh hearing.

• KAVANAUGH HEARINGS: More political fireworks marked the third day of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill. One leading Democrat released ‘confidential’ documents and others focused on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and old Kavanaugh emails.
• Booker releases Kavanaugh documents but GOP insists they were already cleared. New Jersey Democrat Cory Booker said he was ready to risk expulsion from the Senate for making public documents pertinent Kavanaugh’s time as a top White House aide to President George W. Bush, but the GOP mocked him for grandstanding ahead of a possible 2020 run — saying it had already cleared the emails for release. In a striking political gambit, Booker, backed up by Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, released emails — which had been designated as “committee confidential” — that reference Kavanaugh’s position on racial profiling and thoughts on Roe v. Wade dating from his time as a White House official under Bush.