Withholding 100,000 pages of Kavanaugh's White House records

[struggle4progress]

By Seung Min Kim
September 1 at 4:53 PM

... Trump will not release more than 100,000 pages of records from .. Kavanaugh’s tenure in the .. Bush White House, claiming .. executive privilege.

The .. decision was disclosed .. to the Senate Judiciary Committee .. Friday ahead of .. hearings next week. A Bush representative who has led a team of attorneys reviewing Kavanaugh’s papers confirmed that lawyers have finished going through the records and have turned over about 415,000 pages to the committee, although about 147,000 of those pages are being withheld from public view ...

... Kavanaugh’s .. confirmation could tilt the balance of the .. Court for a generation.

Senate Democrats have been infuriated that Republicans have requested documents just from Kavanaugh’s two years as associate White House counsel as the Senate reviews the .. record. Democrats have .. pushed for records from Kavanaugh’s three years as Bush’s staff secretary, but Republicans say that demand is excessive ...

... Obama did not claim privilege on any .. documents involving .. Kagan, the last Supreme Court nominee to have served in a White House ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-to-withhold-100000-pages-of-kavanaughs-white-house-records/2018/09/01/217cf9e0-adf9-11e8-8f4b-aee063e14538_story.html?utm_term=.9542b9277832

[leftieNanner]

1. GET ON THE PHONES PEOPLE!

Call your Senator's office on Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday....

Let them hear from you. Get your friends and neighbors to call!

This is outrageous. Kavanaugh should NOT be on SCOTUS! Period.

[Grasswire2]

2. well is it Bush, or Trump holding back?

And how does the citizenry move this obstacle?

[Grasswire2]

4. I'm going to crank on Nicole Wallace's twitter.

FWIW

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Aren't there copies at the Bush Library?

[Pholus]

5. On any forced vote this needs to be held up as grounds the nomination is tainted.

That message needs to be repeated every single time the guy talks.

For the rest of eternity.

[Atticus]

6. How can Trump claim executive privilege as to documents from an administration

which ended 8 years before he occupied the White House? Why not claim "double whammy fingers crossed hope to spit" privilege?

[beachbum bob]

7. Not much democrats can do about it without 4-5 gop'ers and that is

unlikely