Oh, FFS people....
Just the other day, it was reported Kavanaugh had a very long paper trail. It seems appropriate to request the assistance, given the fact this isn’t unprecedented or uncalled for.
While federal prosecutors have not been tapped to help with recent nominations, including Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, “the scope of the production of executive branch documents we’ve been asked for is many, many times as large,†said Sarah Isgur Flores, a Justice Department spokeswoman.
Ms. Flores added that federal prosecutors had been used to vet Supreme Court nominees in the past.