Six Senate Democrats filed a lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration on Monday to obtain records from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time working for the Bush administration, according to a Buzzfeed News report.
Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Kamala Harris (D-CA) are requesting immediate court action to get the documents as soon as possible.
According to Buzzfeed News, the lawsuit addresses three requests Democrats made on August 8 to the National Archives and its subsection of the Bush Library, and the CIA.
The Democrats want records from Kavanaugh’s time in the Bush administration when he served as assistant to the President and staff secretary, roles that Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley declined to request records from, saying they are not relevant to Kavanaugh’s “legal thinking.”
Keep up the pressure! Excellent work!!
Hopefully this goes to a judge who will NOT slow walk this suit. They now have until next Monday… maybe it’s possible to get the documents released
Where the hell is the ranking Democrat on the SJC? Why isn’t DiFi participating in this?
Also, I thought Shrubya pulled executive privilege on those document, thereby consigning them to a black hole for the next who-knows-how-many years.
What with digital data being what it is, the National Archives should be able to get this material out very quickly.
This won’t change how republicans vote unless there’s something in there that changes the optics sufficiently. What crimes was Kavanaugh associated with during that period, other than torture?