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Article snippet: Senate Democrats up for reelection in strongly pro-Trump states are defending the aggressive tactics their more liberal colleagues on the Judiciary Committee have used to shed light on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's record. More moderate Democrats who hail from states that MORE won by double digits in 2016 say they don’t like the lack of civility surrounding this week’s Supreme Court hearings, but they also don’t think liberal colleagues have done anything wrong. One of those more liberal colleagues, Sen. MORE (Texas) warned that such a serious breach of Senate rules could be punished by expulsion from the Senate, Booker – a likely candidate for president in 2020 – responded: “Bring it.” Sen. MORE (W.Va.), another red-state Democrat, said Booker did not appear to violate any rules. “I saw Cory when his made his statement,” he said. “We’re looking at it. My counsel is looking at that now.” He argued that he didn’t think the "committee confidential" designation was binding. “It wasn’t secretive documents. It wasn’t anything. It was just basically a discretion” by Republican senators, Manchin said. Senate Republicans argue that the decision by centrist Democrats to come to Booker's side Thursday will come back to haunt them as they hit the campaign trail over the next two months leading up to the election. Republicans plan to make the partisan fighting over Kavanaugh an issue on the campaign trail, while Trump has blasted Democrats over their opposition to ... Link to the full article to read more