Senate Dems make 'unprecedented' FOIA request for Kavanaugh documents
Senate Democrats filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on Wednesday to try to force the Trump administration to hand over documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's White House tenure.
"Every Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary committee is joining in a series of Freedom of Information Act requests ... requesting records from Brett Kavanaugh's time in the Bush White House," Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told reporters during a conference call.
Democrats submitted the FOIA requests to the CIA, the National Archives, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for documents tied to Kavanaugh's three-year period as staff secretary for President George W. Bush.
Blumenthal added that the move was an "extraordinary step," "unprecedented" and a "last resort" but said Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) "left us no other choice."
"We need these documents to do our job," Blumenthal said. "There is too much at stake to accept anything less than a complete picture of Judge Kavanaugh's background."
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/400903-senate-dems-make-unprecedented-foia-request-for-kavanaugh-documents
