BLUMENTHAL: Is it a fact, judge, also that while you were in the Bush White House, you took the position that not all legal scholars actually believe that Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land and that the Supreme Court could always overturn it as precedent ― and in fact there were a number of justices who would do so?

KAVANAUGH: I think that’s what legal scholars have ― some ― some legal scholars have undoubtedly said things like that over time, but that ― that’s different from what I as a judge ― my position as a judge is that there’s 45 years of precedent and there’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which reaffirmed Roe.

So that’s precedent on precedent, as I’ve explained, and that’s important. And that’s an important precedent to the Supreme Court.