MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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Supreme Court fight becomes battle for Kavanaugh’s papers
By artappraiser on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 10:57pm |By Jordan Cairney @ TheHill.com, July 29
The Senate fight over documents related to President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court is boiling over.
Trump pick Brett Kavanaugh, a circuit judge since 2006 who previously worked for President George W. Bush’s administration and Kenneth Starr’s independent counsel investigation into former President Clinton, has a voluminous paper trail that lawmakers estimate tops a million pages. Democrats want to see as many of those papers as they can, while Republicans seeking to confirm Kavanaugh before the midterm elections favor a narrower scope. [....]
The key part of the battle is Democratic demands for documents tied to Kavanaugh’s work as a staff secretary in the Bush administration. Republicans argue that Democrats are waging a “fishing expedition” to hunt for damaging information [....]
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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/399287-supreme-court-fight-becomes-battle-for-kavanaughs-papers
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