President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh dodged a question about presidential self-pardons during the second day of his confirmation hearings on Wednesday, sidestepping an issue Trump himself says he believes is settled.

“ ‘It’s a hypothetical question that I can’t begin to answer in this context.’ ” — Brett Kavanaugh

Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, asked Kavanaugh about Trump’s statement that he’s got the “absolute right” to pardon himself. Trump made that assertion June 4 in a tweet, adding, “but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?”