Here are the committee confidential documents that Cory Booker just released and that prompted an...

[steve2470]

Here are the committee confidential documents that Cory Booker just released and that prompted an uproar this morning

Link to tweet

https://www.scribd.com/document/387988906/Booker-Confidential-Kavanaugh-Hearing

[superpatriotman]

1. What's it all mean?

[chelsea0011]

2. I read through it also and don't understand most of it but it does appear

that they were willing to use race profiling on an "interim" basis. Although being race neutral was the goal.

[elleng]

4. Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pea, 515 U.S. 200 (1995), was a landmark United States Supreme Court

case which held that racial classifications, imposed by the federal government, must be analyzed under a standard of "strict scrutiny," the most stringent level of review which requires that racial classifications be narrowly tailored to further compelling governmental interests. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote the majority opinion of the Court, which effectively overturned Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC, 497 U.S. 547 (1990), in which the Court had created a two tiered system for analyzing racial classifications. Adarand held the federal government to the same standards as the state and local governments through a process of "reverse incorporation," in which the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause was held to bind the federal government to the same standards as state and local governments are bound under the 14th Amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adarand_Constructors,_Inc._v._Pe%C3%B1a

Kavanaugh questioned the standard used by the Court in the decision.

[Miles Archer]

5. The BIG issue is that they were withheld for "SECURITY" reasons...

...and Booker's stance was that there were no "SECURITY" issues in them.

Grassly didn't want them to be released because they answered questions about Kavanaugh that he didn't want answered.

[AndJusticeForSome]

6. It means that the "Committee Confidential" wall is falling

I haven't even read the docs yet, but Booker uploading them is the real significance to me.

[AndJusticeForSome]

3. BOOM!

Thank you Rep Booker!

(and you too Steve)

[spanone]

7. K&R...

[Freethinker65]

8. Ok. I read most of it. My biggest question is why was it Committee confidential?

It discusses the back and forth workings of Kavanaugh on issues of race, security, the power of the unitary executive and the solicitor general. There was nothing confidential in it that I could see, except for perhaps the names of people in the email chain that could have been redacted if necessary.
If Kavanaugh believes what he wrote, he should have no problem defending it. I am NOT saying I agree with his arguments.

[SharonClark]

9. The rethug meaning of "confidential information"

Information that, if released, would prove the GOP's intent and lies.

[steve2470]

10. Senator Booker's tweet

Link to tweet