Lead counsel hits new Dem effort to 'delegitimize' Supreme Court amid senator's report on Kavanaugh probe

A new report led by Judiciary committee member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is "nonsense" and "the continuation of the Democrats' lawfare against Justice Brett Kavanaugh," according to the chief counsel on nominations for Republicans at the time. 

"We followed the normal procedures for a Supreme Court nominee to do his background investigation," said Mike Davis, the former chief counsel for nominations to former Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. "And the Senate does its...