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    1. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

      He then decided to say, on top of that, that the records from Kavanaugh’s time as staff secretary to GWB were irrelevant — an absolutely absurd claim, given the importance of the role. (He got that role after working in the WH counsel’s office; it’s a key job.)

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    2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

      Then, to top it off, Grassley talks constantly about the _#_ of pages released and how it’s more than other nominees. Yes, we’re aware. That was McConnell’s point pre-nomination. He’s got a lot! The question is what _%_ of his docs from his time in fed gov’t have been produced.

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    3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

      And, I’ve no idea whether the documents would have any effect on the outcome of his nomination. The point is that the Senate should be able to review them and the public should be able to see any that don’t have (actual) national security/personal reasons for nondisclosure.

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    4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

      And that appeared to have been McConnell’s position the weekend before Kavanaugh’s nomination. Overnight, it disappeared, and, fast-forward, here we are: The weekend before the confirmation hearing is to begin and we lack access to hundreds of thousands of his documents.

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    5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

      NYT, before nom: “The number of pages is said to run into the millions, which Mr. McConnell fears could hand Senate Democrats an opportunity to delay the confirmation vote ...” AP, tonight: “In all, 267,000 pages of Kavanaugh documents from his Bush years are being made public.”

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    6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

      That we have gone from that argument on July 7 — https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/us/politics/trump-mcconnell-supreme-court.amp.html … — to this reality less than two months later is as aggressive a position as McConnell and Grassley’s move in 2016 to block movement on Garland’s nomination. And everyone should understand that.

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    7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

      Unlike in 2016 — when McConnell and Grassley owned their blockade of Garland, to their ultimate political advantage — in 2018 they’re not doing so at all, instead trying to ignore it by having Grassley just claim that what they’re doing is not what they’re doing.

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    8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

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    9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

      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 @EricColumbus here —>https://apnews.com/70b1f649aad7404baa11949b50d715c6 …

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    10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

      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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      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

      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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        2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

          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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        3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

          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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        4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Aug 31

          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 @BuzzFeedNews:pic.twitter.com/gXJbQZOQ8Z

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        5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 2

          Chris Geidner Retweeted Chris Geidner

          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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          Chris GeidnerVerified account @chrisgeidner
          Republicans Are Fighting To Keep Brett Kavanaugh's Documents From Holding Up His Supreme Court Nomination https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/brett-kavanaugh-document-fight-executive-privilege …
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        6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Sep 3

          Chris Geidner Retweeted Chris Geidner

          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 …

          Chris Geidner added,

          Chris GeidnerVerified account @chrisgeidner
          My latest on the Kavanaugh docs —> The Justice Department Was Behind The Decision To Keep 100,000 Pages Of Kavanaugh’s Record Secret https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/doj-kavanaugh-records-privilege-tagging …
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        2. Milo M.‏ @Ex67T20 Aug 31
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Milo M. Retweeted Milo M.

          https://twitter.com/ex67t20/status/1030067322071998464?s=21 … Bullshit. Ask Orrin Hatch, Elaine Chao, and Philip Anschutz why they’re being withheld. Hatch is RT’ing Judicial Crisis Network takes on Kavanaugh while receiving $$ from its operator. How did Hatch vote on Benczkowski?

          Milo M. added,

          Milo M. @Ex67T20
          Replying to @NatashaBertrand
          I find it very interesting that in the same month that Benczkowski got the call to investigate the Trump Tower-Alfa Bank connections, the man who called him, Viet Dinh, donated to Orrin Hatch and Jeff Flake PACs. These are Dinh’s only donations for the 2017-2018 cycle. pic.twitter.com/DdFwANgLm5
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        3. Milo M.‏ @Ex67T20 Aug 31
          Replying to @Ex67T20 @chrisgeidner

          Why did Federalist Society advisor/Heritage Foundation Distinguished Fellow Elaine Chao have dinner with Gorsuch and member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Cornyn?

          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
        4. Milo M.‏ @Ex67T20 Aug 31
          Replying to @Ex67T20 @chrisgeidner

          Milo M. Retweeted Milo M.

          https://twitter.com/ex67t20/status/1035363196331347969?s=21 … Does Chao know anyone other than Ellis & Watts attorneys who were Kavanaugh’s partners?

          Milo M. added,

          Milo M. @Ex67T20
          Replying to @Ex67T20 @tribelaw and 3 others
          Also noteworthy, I think, that Chao appointed two of Benczkowski’s, Kavanaugh’s, and Dinh’s partners—Jeffrey Rosen and Steven Bradbury—to Senior Executive Service positions at the Department of Transportation.
          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
        5. Milo M.‏ @Ex67T20 Aug 31
          Replying to @Ex67T20 @chrisgeidner

          https://twitter.com/i/moments/976515905994752006 … I mean, except for the McConnell operative/donor/RNC delegate/State Farm agent whom she appointed to a DOT position?

          1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
        6. Milo M.‏ @Ex67T20 Aug 31
          Replying to @Ex67T20 @chrisgeidner

          Milo M. Retweeted Milo M.

          https://twitter.com/ex67t20/status/1023585659129344003?s=21 … Control of the right wing narrative AND an adjacency to a LOT of people who worked with Kavanaugh during his Bush years—while her husband pushes unholy legislation and nominees at the bequest of his (and her) benefactors? Who wouldn’t, right?

          Milo M. added,

          Milo M. @Ex67T20
          Replying to @JoyceWhiteVance
          @foxnews really, really wants to see Kavanaugh appointed. Coincidentally, @SecElaineChao is a recent News Corporation director, and her brother in law Jim Breyer’s on the 21st Century Fox board—as is Kavanaugh’s fellow vetter of George W. Bush judicial nominees, Viet Dinh. pic.twitter.com/f17MGLWMp5
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        7. Milo M.‏ @Ex67T20 Aug 31
          Replying to @Ex67T20 @chrisgeidner

          Did Kavanaugh vet Gorsuch for the 10th Circuit based on a letter from Gorsuch’s BFF who gave a McConnell PAC $500,000 one day before Garland’s shutdown? Does it matter? Kavanaugh could admit to eating human flesh, and the Right would say, “Teach a man to fish, I guess.”

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        8. Milo M.‏ @Ex67T20 Aug 31
          Replying to @Ex67T20 @chrisgeidner

          I don’t like to see Supreme Court seats stolen by unelected grifters who have the support of far fewer Americans than they seem to believe they do. Benczkowski’s the prosecutorial discretion that conservative billionaire donors need to protect Trump’s signing pen.

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        9. Milo M.‏ @Ex67T20 Aug 31
          Replying to @Ex67T20 @chrisgeidner

          Side note: The media really, really needs to stop considering Elaine Chao as though she was appointed to actually manage the Department of Transportation. @SenateDems need to grow a collective spine and say, literally, “fuck no!” to every piece of legislation and every nominee.

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        1. Raj 🗽 #Vote4Democrats‏ @Solutioneer72 Sep 1
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          #StopKavanaugh #HaltTheHearing

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        1. Kzinti‏ @Commander_Kzin Sep 1
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          No wonder nothing is being done about anything in DC, everyone is reading documents and approving/disapproving confidential stamping.

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