A lawyer for former President George W. Bush released 42,000 pages of documents relevant to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s work with the Bush administration mere hours before his Senate confirmation hearing, according to the Washington Post.
The last-minute release of records, which came from the National Archives and will not be made public for the time being, sparked outrage from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who claimed in a Monday evening tweet that “not a single senator will be able to review these records before tomorrow.”
Staffers for the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee then trolled Schumer, retweeting his post just before 11 p.m. Monday and bragging that it had “completed its review of each and every one of these pages.”
The Majority staff has now completed its review of each and every one of these pages. Chairman @ChuckGrassley and his team are prepped and ready for Judge Kavanaugh's hearing to begin tomorrow. #SCOTUS https://t.co/jrXRU8QMTg
— Senate Judiciary (@senjudiciary) September 4, 2018
On Friday, the Trump administration claimed executive privilege to prevent the release of over 100,000 pages of documents relevant to Kavanaugh’s tenure with the Bush administration.
Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing is set to begin at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Schumer:
If this is true… Schumer has to go, Or is he just going to change parties so he can get in on some of the grift.
That the Senate Judiciary majority staff thinks this is a joke is infuriating. They are not even trying to put a fig leaf on their attempt to railroad this nomination.
Knowing how transparent and fair the Republicans are trying to be with this illegitimate nomination, I’m sure that none of these 42,000 documents or the 100,000 still being withheld have even one incriminating word. The commercials say Kavanaugh is A-OK, and ya gotta believe commercials paid for by the people who will benefit from him getting on the bench, right?
Maybe the Grassley grifters were given the documentation earlier.
Maybe the GOP has not reviewed anything and will wholey vote for Kavanaugh no matter what.
Maybe the release of documents should be done several days prior to hearings.
I feel certain that the GOP is not hiding anything. Bend over folks. Here it comes again.
You’re talking about Sen Dianne Feinstein, Ranking Member, calling the shots here. Democrats and seniority, putting the most feeble in charge.
And then of course over in the Senate there’s Boss Schumer threatening Republicans with his butter knife.