The secrecy surrounding large portions of Brett Kavanaugh’s records by Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley’s outright support of it, is something that should be a much bigger deal.https://twitter.com/dweaverDC/status/1035698047458725890 …
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Postscript: The reason I included Trump in the first tweet in the thread is that the AP story is saying that Trump is withholding papers from the GWB White House of his own SCOTUS nominee from being released. More from
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BREAKING: I've got much more here on the 100,000 pages+ of Brett Kavanaugh's records that are being withheld by direction of the Trump administration —> https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/the-trump-administration-is-keeping-100000-pages-of-brett …pic.twitter.com/iEVDlhUwLk
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BIG: The Trump Administration Is Keeping 100,000 Pages Of Brett Kavanaugh's Records Secret https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/the-trump-administration-is-keeping-100000-pages-of-brett … ... Here's the description of why documents are being withheld under executive privilege —>pic.twitter.com/QtFSMe3D6L
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Here's what happened to the documents (that an outside vendor decided weren't duplicates) turned over by NARA to GWB lawyers to review (and remember this is ONLY from Kavanaugh's time in the counsel's office): https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/the-trump-administration-is-keeping-100000-pages-of-brett … —>pic.twitter.com/nmoszkKo1v
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I just added the full letter here, so please share —> The Trump Administration Is Keeping 100,000 Pages Of Brett Kavanaugh's Records Secret: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/the-trump-administration-is-keeping-100000-pages-of-brett …pic.twitter.com/Nl87gf6LAq
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Senate Dem Leader Chuck Schumer calls the Trump-hidden Kavanaugh documents — https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/the-trump-administration-is-keeping-100000-pages-of-brett … — a “Friday night document massacre” and says “it has all the makings of a cover up” in a statement provided to
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More from me tonight on the big-picture look at the fight over Kavanaugh's documents and how Republicans have been taking whatever steps they can to minimize the number of documents going out and to quickly move out the ones that are going out —>https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1036459754149896192 …
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Another night, another story on the 100,000+ pages of Kavanuagh documents that no one is going to get to see. Tonight, DOJ acknowledged that it made the call on which docs to withhold.https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1036820727301898242 …
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The new and astonishing part of that AP story is that Trump is blocking release of Kavanaugh docs from the Bush WH that Bush cleared. Obama didn’t do that with Kagan’s docs from the Clinton WH.
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That’s why I put all three names in the first tweet, but yes.
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Hello you can read it here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1035719792873881600.html … Have a good day.
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tl;dr: Grassley doesn't give a fuck about America
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Thank you! Please have people Testify somehow how Kavanaugh ruled against WadevRoe and Workers’ And Voters’ s rights ! This is a crime against the heAmericsn People! They should not get away with it!
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