Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., added his name to the handful of Democrats who on Wednesday said that Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination should be held up in light of the guilty plea of the president's former personal lawyer and the eight guilty verdicts against President Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.

Jones said Kavanaugh's nomination should be held up not just because of those legal cases. Alabama's junior senator cited the trove of documents that the Senate Judiciary Committee has yet to obtain from Kavnaugh's tenure as President George W. Bush's staff secretary.

"I think we need to push a pause button right now and let this play out just a little bit," the senator told MSNBC. "And you couple [the legal cases] with the fact that we haven't got the full set of documents, I think it only makes sense."

Jones noted that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, was told by the National Archives that the Kavanaugh documents could be delivered by October at the earliest.

By waiting until then, Jones said, "it'll give some of this other stuff some time to play out," referring to Trump being implicated in violating campaign finance laws by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. When he pleaded guilty to eight felony counts in a New York federal courtroom on Tuesday, Cohen maintained he bought the rights to the stories of two women who claimed they had affairs with the then-presidential candidate "in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office.

Jones said the Manafort convictions and the Cohen plea - which he called "two bombshells" - are "undermining this presidency." He said the cases also make Kavanaugh's stance on presidential power more relevant.

"You cant ever determine where this will end up. But I think it does raise the stakes a bit on that part of the Kavanaugh record," Jones said.

While some Democrats have cancelled meetings with Kavnaugh following the legal developments, Jones has not gone that far.

"If the schedule holds, then yes, I'm going to go forward with it," he said. "I'm not going to cancel that."

Meanwhile, the senator is keeping an open mind on Kavanaugh's nomination. He has been facing pressure from both sides of the aisle over his vote, including being heckled by a protester at a Birmingham town hall who threw a pair of stuffed lips at Jones' direction and said he could "kiss my ass" if he voted for Kavanaugh.

On the other hand, Jones has been the target of ads from the National Rifle Association and the Judicial Crisis Network urging him to vote for Trump's Supreme Court nominee.

Jones has said that appeals from both sides will not impact his decision.