NYT Boom: Those secret Kavanaugh emails that the Judiciary Committee won't let out? We've got them:

[kpete]

Boom: Those secret Kavanaugh emails that the Judiciary Committee won't let out? We've got them: Abortion, affirmative action, surveillance. Now the committee has something to talk about.




Leaked Documents From Kavanaugh’s Time in White House Discuss Abortion and Affirmative Action

WASHINGTON — As a White House lawyer in the Bush administration, Judge Brett Kavanaugh challenged the accuracy of deeming the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision to be “settled law of the land,” according to a secret email obtained by The New York Times.

The email, written in March 2003, is one of thousands of documents that a lawyer for President George W. Bush turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Supreme Court nominee but deemed “committee confidential,” meaning it could not be made public or discussed by Democrats in questioning him in hearings this week. It was among several an unknown person provided to The New York Times late Wednesday.

Judge Kavanaugh was considering a draft opinion piece that supporters of one of Mr. Bush’s conservative appeals court nominees hoped they could persuade anti-abortion women to submit under their names. It stated that “it is widely accepted by legal scholars across the board that Roe v. Wade and its progeny are the settled law of the land.”

Judge Kavanaugh proposed deleting that line, writing: “I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since Court can always overrule its precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/us/politics/kavanaugh-leaked-documents.html#click=https://t.co/lJJm7CADbU

[empedocles]

1. BOOM! Good!

[kpete]

2. More from NYT:

Other documents provided to The Times included a document showing that in September 2001, after the terrorist attacks, Judge Kavanaugh engaged with a Justice Department lawyer about questions of warrantless surveillance at the time that lawyer wrote a memo an inspector general report later portrayed as the precursor to the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program.

[HipChick]

3. K&R

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. I want to see more recent stuff.

Surely Ms. Kamala had something in mind when she asked the nominee if he had had contact with Trumps lawyers. Like a dog on a bone, she was. And he would NOT answer.

[brush]

6. Here you go...from 2013 about presidential powers to stop prosecutions etc.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11100419

[Fred Sanders]

12. In one email called affirmative action in the DOJ a "naked racial set-aside".

God bless the leakers, the informants, the bloodless coup leaders and of course, the truths they reveal being hidden by evil.

[watoos]

14. They aren't really "leakers."

This information should be available and Republicans are hiding it from us.

[stopwastingmymoney]

20. Rachel touched on a good point last night

They aren't just hiding it from us, 'committee confidential' they're also trying to hide it from Senators not on the committee

[malaise]

5. Great news

ReTHUG are all authoritarians. Lock them all up.

[certainot]

10. authoritarianism & greed will dominate the 'civilized' world until we get some real sex education

thanks to the universally dreaded 'sex on the wrong brain'

[jalan48]

7. Will this change minds on the Republican side? Will the Democrat's vote as a solid block to oppose

his nomination?

[certainot]

9. but he's the most qualified EVER!!! /s/

[mikeysnot]

16. When trump said qualified

he meant corrupt.

[LiberalLovinLug]

17. Yeah, this might just coalesce the Republican vote

[lunatica]

8. Rec'd and kick'd

[Stuart G]

11. r and k...

[nolabear]

13. "Failing", eh?

They ain’t failing at much.

[Auggie]

15. Call your repuke senators!

[klook]

18. Beautiful! (nt)

[Hekate]

19. KICK