On the recordAugust 21, 2018
as I have now for several weeks spoken to my colleagues about the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, I return to further elaborate on where we are in that process. Two weeks from today, Judge Brett Kavanaugh will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first day of his confirmation hearing. I am quite excited to finally hear from him in that forum. He is one of the most qualified nominees to have ever been picked for the Supreme Court, and he has contributed a great deal to his community and the legal profession, besides being an outstanding judge on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Apparently, the other side has found very little in his record that is objectionable. The only thing I keep hearing is their unprecedented demand for millions and millions of pages of irrelevant documents on top of the hundreds of thousands of pages we have already received. Indeed, the Senate Democratic leaders have demanded the search of every email and every scrap of paper from every one of the hundreds of White House aides who came and went for the entire 8 years of the George W. Bush Presidency. The Senate Democratic leaders have even refused to utilize search terms-- and other ways--in order to limit the universe of millions and millions of pages of records that would require a consecutive review by the Archives and both the former and incumbent Presidents' teams of lawyers even before the Senate Judiciary Committee could have begun its own search.…
