The Democrats' cynical Kavanaugh ploy
by Washington Examiner
| August 07, 2019 05:54 PM
What are Democrats up to?
The House Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of Chairman Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, is trying to revive the fight over Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Nadler is trying to obtain, before their official release date, Kavanaugh’s emails from when he served in the Office of the White House Counsel and as President George W. Bush’s staff secretary.
Nadler’s interest in the early release of emails sent to Kavanaugh, even as carbon copies or blind carbon copies, hints at an unrestricted fishing expedition into Bush administration history. Everything in the office went through Kavanaugh, as Republican senators pointed out during the confirmation process.
There are few things political opponents would like more than attorney-client work product of the other party’s leaders, and Kavanaugh’s nomination gives Nadler an excuse to get it.
Or perhaps this could be an effort to suss out more about who knew what and when in 2003, when Republicans gained unauthorized access to Democrats’ emails on the Senate Judiciary Committee, revealing evidence that the committee’s Democrats were blocking judicial nominees such as Miguel Estrada based on their race.
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