Here's what Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said about key issues like abortion during his marathon confirmation hearings

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• Judge Brett Kavanaugh sat through several days of hearings last week, during which senators on the Judiciary Committee probed his record and positions to determine his fitness to serve on the Supreme Court.
• The hearings were routinely interrupted by protesters each day, while Democrats and Republicans on the committee fought with each other about procedure and transparency.
• Kavanaugh did answer a lot of questions in a number of key areas, including abortion, gun rights, and special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
• The makeup of support and opposition to Kavanaugh's confirmation in the Senate appears to have held relatively steady throughout the marathon testimony.

WASHINGTON — The confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh were a long four days in which lawmakers grilled President Donald Trump's nominee to serve on the Supreme Court.

And while Kavanaugh's judicial record was widely known beforehand, the hearings revealed new information and insight into how the final vote for his confirmation will fare in the coming weeks — and what Kavanaugh thinks about some key issues.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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