Grassley Blasts Out Kavanaugh Docs As Dems Release Emails

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As Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and other Democrats defied Senate rules and objections from Republicans to publicly release emails written by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) blasted out some Kavanaugh documents himself, containing the same pages Booker released.

According to Grassley’s spokeswoman Taylor Foy, the chairman’s staff “worked throughout the night to help facilitate 11th hour requests” from Democrats on the committee.

The bulk of the documents deal with racial profiling and affirmative action, and include the 12 pages Booker released minutes earlier. Democrats on the committee have been accusing the Republicans of hiding important information on Kavanaugh by refusing to publicly release the emails.

Read the documents here:

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  1. Avatar for jtx jtx says:

    Dems called his bluff.

  2. ‘11th hour requests’ my butt. You should have RELEASED all this crap earlier. You whined and sniveled about getting the health care docs 11 months early (‘WE HAD NO TIME TO RESEARCH THEM!’) and then you play THIS game??? WTF are you hiding Cons???

  3. As Carly Simon would tell Senator Asshat (r-ia) -

    “Well it’s too late, baby, now…it’s too late…”

  4. But aren’t we profiling poor Mr Kavanaugh when we call him out as rich, white male republican bent on securing power for a greedy minority when we point out that he’s written that he’s okay with profiling from his perspective as a rich, white male republican bent on securing power for a greedy minority?

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