Posted on 07/11/2018 4:41:43 PM PDT by mandaladon
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has asked the offices of all 93 U.S. attorneys to each provide up to three federal prosecutors to assist the Justice Department in reviewing government records of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the New York Times reports, citing a letter it obtained.
Why it matters: The Times notes that this is an unusual move because department attorneys are not typically responsible for carrying out such a task. "The production of documents could slow down a confirmation hearing that has already shaped up as a sharp partisan battle. Democratic lawmakers say they want to inspect all of Judge Kavanaugh’s documents, including his staff work and over 300 opinions he has issued as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit," the report notes.
Show less What they're saying: Former law enforcement officials told the Times that Rosenstein's request is troubling.
"It’s flat-out wrong to have career federal prosecutors engaged in a political process like the vetting of a Supreme Court nominee. It takes them away from the mission they’re supposed to be fulfilling, which is effective criminal justice enforcement," Christopher Hunter, a former F.B.I. agent and federal prosecutor for almost 11 years, told the publication.
But Michael Zubrensky, a former Justice Department lawyer who oversaw the agency's Office of Legal Policy, said Kavanaugh's long paper trail could be the reason for Rosenstein's request. Sarah Isgur Flores, spokeswoman for the Department of Justice, told the Times that prosecutors have been used in the past to vet Supreme Court nominees. "[T]he scope of the production of executive branch documents we’ve been asked for is many, many times as large," she said.
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Rosenstein is doing Trump a favor here.
FBI is short for Gestapo
Is that the face one makes when castrated?
That’s the face of self recusal.
Swamp Weasel.
Sessions should be firing Rosenstein. This has nothing to do with Russian investigation and therefore Session is not rescused from it.
Hey Rottenstein: YOU’RE FIRED
[ Yo, Trump? Strap on a pair, and do what’s needed at DOJ. Unless watching Americans get screwed over was part of your plan. ]
What if it is his position that is so tenuous that he is waiting for us to show him OUR support????
It’s the face you make when your wife finds out.
Why is Eisenstein still there?
It is unbelievable it is taking them this long to impeach him and hold him in contempt.
Where the hell is Sessions?
Is Rosentein running everything?
WTF
Is he just loafing around, taking a vacation, practicing his golf?
“Rosenstein is assisting Sessions in draining the swamp.
This move means nothing and has happened to other SCOTUS nominations as well. “
You are deranged. If you read the article, in the past, a few hundred to a few thousand ( as in two ) pages of info were supplied by the DOJ, not TWO MILLION PAGES of documents. This is obviously meant to drag on the confirmation beyond the mid-terms.
2 million pages holy crap!
“Did RR do these same vetting processes for the unwise Latina and Kagan??”
In those instances, a few hundred to two thousand pages of documents were collected by the DOJ. In this case, Rosenstein is taking Two Million pages of documents.
You’re an ass. Almost as bad as John McCain.
Rosenstein IS a Deep State swamp dweller, and Sessions is his b####.
Or did you forget the /sarc tag?
How do we know story true?
You’re lying or stupid or both.
A large team of federal prosecutors has NEVER been called in to vet or investigate a SCOTUS nominee.
Even the New York Times, whose sympathies mirror your own, admits as much. Fool.
Rosenstein is sticking his thumb in the eye of Congress. He is saying that if they want to play hardball over documents, he will show them who really has the power. As in threatening to subpoena congressional aides, or gum up the works with an avalanche of documents. He gets to tweak the president’s nose, show up Sessions, and in general thumb his nose at Congress. And all with no fear of contradiction — just helping them do their oversight, dontcha know?
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