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More of Kavanaugh’s Starr Investigation Records Become Public

Total public records exceeds levels for Kagan Nomination

WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee today released roughly 10,000 pages of material from Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s work in the Office of the Independent Counsel (OIC). The total volume of publicly available Executive Branch material for this nomination is now more than 176,000 pages, exceeding the volume of similar material available for the committee’s consideration of Justice Kagan.
 
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) produced the records to the committee over the weekend and made them public today. In this production, NARA has approved 9,809 pages for public release, and is withholding 2,540 pages in full or in part in pursuant to applicable Freedom of Information Act exemptions.  The production to the committee includes:
 
·       Cover Sheet
 
Nomination material is being posted HERE as it becomes available.
 
The Chairman’s team has already reviewed all of the documents provided to the committee by President Bush as well as NARA’s initial production of nearly 10,000 pages of OIC documents, and has nearly completed its review of NARA’s most recent production of OIC documents.  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 material Judge Kavanaugh submitted to the committee in response to its bipartisan questionnaire.  
 

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