Additional Exec Branch Documents Become Public
WASHINGTON – The Senate
Judiciary Committee today posted on its public website a subset of presidential
records received and reviewed this week before the beginning of Judge Brett
Kavanaugh’s nomination hearing. The release brings the total public Executive
Branch material to more than 294,000 pages. Today’s release includes:
Nomination
material is being posted HERE as it becomes
available.
The
Chairman’s team has completed its review of an historic volume of Executive
Branch documents ahead of Judge Kavanaugh’s hearing and Chairman Grassley has expanded
access to this material consistent with federal law. This includes more
than 457,400 pages of White House Counsel’s Office documents submitted by
President Bush, as well as more than 22,000 pages of documents from the Office
of the Independent Counsel provided by the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) and more than 3,500 pages from Judge Kavanaugh’s D.C.
Circuit nomination file provided by NARA. That’s in addition to reviewing other
public material, including more than 10,000 pages of the judicial opinions that
Judge Kavanaugh wrote or joined in his 12 years of service on the D.C. Circuit
and more than 17,000 pages of academic writings, speeches and other material
Judge Kavanaugh submitted to
the committee
in response to its bipartisan questionnaire.
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