Posted on 09/01/2018 3:13:26 PM PDT by jazusamo
Democrats on Saturday slammed what they described as a “Friday night document massacre” after the White House withheld more than 100,000 pages of Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s records, citing presidential privilege.
Former President George W. Bush’s attorney Bill Burck told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a letter Friday that it has mostly completed its work ahead of next week’s planned confirmation hearing.
Kavanaugh, who has been tapped by President Trump to replace Anthony Kennedy on the nation’s highest court, served in the White House Counsel’s office during the Bush administration.
The letter said that Bush told them to “proceed expeditiously and to err as much as appropriate on the side of transparency and disclosure, and we believe we have done do. on the side of transparency and disclosure.”
But the letter said that the White House and the Department of Justice, conducting its own review of the presidential records, “have identified certain documents of the type traditionally protected by constitutional privilege.”
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The truth is at the end of the article. Most readers won’t read that far. Looks like the Fox News New Yorker author doesn’t want a proper American Supreme Court justice.
>> I would think they could get judicial opinions by going through the court he sat on.<<
All a matter of public record.
The fake controversy isn’t about judicial opinions. The answer is in the remainder of the article behind the link.
Drama Queens 2,723,199,527.0
Thanks jazusamo. The jackass party lives up to its mascot.
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