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Article snippet: Republican and Democratic senators on Sunday drove home their parting messages for the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, making clear the stakes when Kavanaugh sits before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. “If you are looking to a Republican president to pick a qualified conservative, he would be on the top of anyone's list,” Sen. Tuesday's hearing. Republicans sought to cast Kavanaugh as a capable and qualified nominee, while parrying away a litany of Democratic arguments for why the Senate should reject Kavanaugh or delay his confirmation process entirely. Republicans hold a 50-49 advantage in the Senate after the death late last week of Sen. MORE's nominee. Chief among those issues on Sunday was the subject of transparency. "You have a nominee with excellent credentials, with his family behind him, you have the cameras there, you have the senators questioning, but this isn’t normal because we are not able to see 100,000 documents that the archivist has just — because the administration has said we can’t see them," Sen. She noted that there are close to 150,000 confidential documents she's been able to see, but that are restricted from the public. Asked if anything she's seen makes Kavanaugh unqualified for the job, Klobuchar said the documents "strongly bolster the arguments that I could make." "I think you could ask some very interesting questions about these documents, that I'm unable to even say because I'm not able to make them pu... Link to the full article to read more