Citing Executive Privilege, WH Won’t Release More Than 100,000 Kavanaugh Records 

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 10: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, right, and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh arrive at the U.S. Capitol on July 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaug... WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 10: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, right, and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh arrive at the U.S. Capitol on July 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh to succeed retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. (Photo by Alex Edelman/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump has stepped in last minute to block the release of more than 100,000 pages of documents related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time in the White House under the Bush administration, according to the New York Times. 

Citing executive privilege, the White House told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) that the privileged documents outline internal deliberations of the Bush White House and “advice submitted directly to President Bush,” Bush’s lawyer, William Burck wrote in the letter obtained by the Times.

The documents also reportedly “reflect deliberations and candid advice concerning the selection and nomination of judicial candidates, the confidentiality of which is critical to any president’s ability to carry out this core constitutional executive function,” Burck said, according to the Times.

With Kavanaugh’s hearing set to commence on Tuesday, Democrats view the document block as an attempted “coverup,” with Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calling the move unprecedented in a tweet on Saturday.

Democrats have been trying desperately for weeks to request a full scale review of documents related to Kavanaugh’s time working for the Bush administration, as just one battle front attempt to block his confirmation to the Supreme Court.

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  1. Citing executive privilege, the White House told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) that the privileged documents outline internal deliberations of the Bush White House and “advice submitted directly to President Bush,” Bush’s lawyer, William Burck wrote in the letter obtained by the Times.

    sooooo, beauty is in the eye of the majority.

    The documents also reportedly “reflect deliberations and candid advice concerning the selection and nomination of judicial candidates, the confidentiality of which is critical to any president’s ability to carry out this core constitutional executive function,” Burck said, according to the Times.

    someone should get W’s or Cheney’s thoughts on this.

  2. So continues the constitutional crisis that began on November 8, 2016.

  3. Were it a Democratic nominee, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

    Kavanaugh appears to be poison for the bench. We will end up with him anyway, because the GOP is making America over in their own image and no one will stop them. The media is complicit. The Dems haven’t enough power.

    No one will stop this.

  4. Avatar for jmacaz jmacaz says:

    I would like to see W weigh in on this. They are his records after all.

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