Since the day in July when Judge Brett Kavanaugh was tapped for a U.S. Supreme Court seat, the confirmation hearings starting Tuesday have consumed the lives of Senate Judiciary Committee members.

For U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, preparation has meant hiring more staff to help pore over more than 400,000 pages of documents provided to the committee. When he recently hopped a plane to campaign for a fellow Democrat in Nevada, he carried a book bag loaded down with reading material on the nominee.

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