Thirty-five law school professors teaching at colleges and universities in Georgia have signed a letter urging the U.S. Senate not to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The letter, published Thursday in The New York Times, chastised the judge for his "lack of commitment to judicious inquiry" and being "repeatedly aggressive with questioners" during his confirmation hearings.
“We have differing views about the other qualifications of Judge Kavanaugh,” the letter read. “But we are united, as professors of law and scholars of judicial institutions, in believing that he did not display the impartiality and judicial temperament requisite to sit on the highest court of our land.”
Most of the Georgia professors who signed the letter teach at Mercer or Emory law schools. More than 2,400 professors nationwide signed the letter.
Many Americans and the senate’s judiciary committee have been divided over dueling testimony before the committee concerning whether Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a teenage girl while they were both in high school.
The Senate is scheduled Saturday to vote on Kavanaugh's nomination to the court. Both U.S. senators from Georgia, Johnny Isakson and David Perdue, have said they plan to vote for Kavanaugh.
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