Let Kavanaugh decide which papers to release.
Via BPR:
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s history of serving in the George W. Bush White House and his four years working with independent counsel Kenneth Starr in his investigation of former President Bill Clinton has left a sea of paperwork.
…and a few enemies.
Democrats, desperate to derail his appointment to the high court, have a limited time to pore over the tens of thousands of pages of document and are setting the stage to use an expected Justice Department review of the documents to complain about the administration trying to keep select information under wraps.
With Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying last week the Senate will vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination by the first of October, Democrats are going to do all they can to slow roll the process and drag it out beyond the midterm elections in the hope (and prayer) that they may retake the majority in the upper chamber.
DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said documents related to Kavanaugh’s time in the executive branch are subject to review for privileged records, according to The Hill.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, was clear that Democrats intend to make this a point of contention.
“This is going to be my 10th Supreme Court hearing, and I have never seen this amount of documentation that will need to be available for review for both sides,” she said, according to The Hill. “While I understand the Justice Department will not be sharing its analysis of the documents, certainly all of what it is reviewing should be made available to both sides for our review.”