Kavanaugh Hearing 9/4: Dems Not to Discuss Confidential Info; John Dean, Condi Rice, more Testify
"Republicans Warn Dems Not to Discuss Confidential Material at Kavanaugh Hearing," John Bowden, The Hill, 08/31/18.
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee urged Democrats on the panel Friday not to discuss confidential materials during the committee's upcoming confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
In a letter to minority members on the panel, committee Republicans with the exception of Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) warned Democrats against discussing documents marked "committee confidential" outside of the closed portion of Kavanaugh's hearing.
Breaching such an arrangement..would only impede the committee's ability to obtain confidential documents from the executive branch in the future. "We want to emphasize that every Member is free to discuss any document designated Committee Confidential during the closed session of Judge Kavanaugh's hearing," the senators wrote...
Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee are set to begin on Tuesday, despite a letter last week from every Democrat on the committee urging Grassley to delay the hearings.
Democrats pushed for a delay over an admission from President Trump's former longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, that the president was involved in a hush money scheme before the 2016 election aimed at buying the silence of two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump in 2006.
"Given the possibility of criminal wrongdoing by the President, doubts that Judge Kavanaugh believes a president can even be investigated, and the unprecedented lack of transparency regarding this nominee’s record, we should not move forward with hearings on September 4th," Democratic senators wrote last Friday.
A number of high-profile witnesses, including former White House counsel John Dean, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) are expected to testify at Kavanaugh's hearing....
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