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BigmanPigman

(51,584 posts)
Sun Sep 2, 2018, 01:12 AM Sep 2018

Can the Dems in the Senate force the W House to release

the 100 pages of Kavavaugh's records from the Bush era? This is an obvious cover up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/us/politics/kavanaugh-records.html

"The Trump White House, citing executive privilege, is withholding from the Senate more than 100,000 pages of records from Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s time as a lawyer in the administration of former President George W. Bush."

"The decision, disclosed in a letter that a lawyer for Mr. Bush sent on Friday to Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, comes just days before the start of Judge Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings on Tuesday. It drew condemnation from Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader."

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Can the Dems in the Senate force the W House to release (Original Post) BigmanPigman Sep 2018 OP
Maybe someone can file a FOIA request? RandySF Sep 2018 #1
Elections have consequences tirebiter Sep 2018 #2
100,000 (not 100). It smells like a coverup. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2018 #3
How can Trump claim Bush privilege? dawg day Sep 2018 #4
no mechanism exist while you are a minority, elections have consequences beachbum bob Sep 2018 #5

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
4. How can Trump claim Bush privilege?
Sun Sep 2, 2018, 03:28 AM
Sep 2018

I think that couldn't possibly hold up. But these days, Trump seems to get away with all sorts of things no one else would try.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
5. no mechanism exist while you are a minority, elections have consequences
Sun Sep 2, 2018, 07:01 AM
Sep 2018

to clarify, senate democrats could use filibuster on all legislation but that ius only a delaying tactic

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