There is another thing that is interesting about Kavanaugh. That people seem to have forgotten . This was not the first time that he was under the radar & It was the second time (1)>>since 2003 that Brett Kavanaugh has appeared before the committee, where his nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Nearly a decade later he faces the same Democrats .While the FOCUS now has turned to Kavanaugh and his alleged woman who came forward in a Washington Post interview Sunday as the author of a letter accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of assault three decades ago, is a professor at Palo Alto University in California. Now is unwinding . Democratic Senator Dick Durbin has called for a delay in the vote regarding Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. “There are far too many questions swirling around this nomination,” Mr Durbin said, urging Republicans on the US Senate Judiciary Committee to delay the (2)>>scheduled 20 September vote. “The American people deserve to know who Judge Kavanaugh is, but Republicans are trying to rush through this nomination while concealing critical parts of the nominee’s record,” Mr Durbin tweeted. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's 2015 defense of the (3)>>National Security Agency's widescale secret collection of telephone metadata — records of callers and recipients' phone numbers and times and durations of the calls. Seems to go back decades into the Bush Administration . The Senate has good reason to be extra-cautious when it comes to judicial nominees . Judge Kavanaugh’s paper trail is far longer than those of prior nominees; the archives hold six million to seven million documents related to him. [ for the most part of them about 900,000 worth a look ] . As staff secretary from 2003 to 2006, Kavanaugh would have been well-placed to weigh in on some of the Bush administration’s most significant moments, including the (4)>>Iraq War and its aftermath, the Abu Ghraib scandal and other torture-related policies, the reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act, the federal partial-birth abortion ban, and more. These issues aren’t unrelated to the judicial role he would perform on the high court, especially given that Kavanaugh has said how influential the staff secretary role was on his future performance on the bench. His trustworthness is a big problem . A decade ago Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York. said much of about Kavanaugh "I have deep concerns about this nominee,""If there was a political fight that needed a political foot soldier in the last decade, Brett Kavanaugh was probably there," Schumer said. Schumer cited the nominee's work as a lawyer for independent counsel (5)>>Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Clinton, and the 2000 Florida ballot recount. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to have Kavanaugh confirmed for the start of the Supreme Court session Oct. 1 and to serve up a midterm election boost for Republicans in November.This stonewalling by Republican leaders is so extreme that Democratic senators have been reduced to filing unheard-of requests for the missing documents under the Freedom of Information Act — a process that can take many months. OnAugust 2018 , the National Archives distanced itself from this shady process, calling it “something that has never happened before.” I said Oh Really ?
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(1)>>since 2003 that Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh’s five years working for Bush, as a White House counsel and the staff secretary, are the subject of a fierce dispute between Senate Republicans and Democrats about the scope of documents being made available. The battle over the paper trail has come to dominate the debate over confirming the 53-year-old appellate judge to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.The first download of thousands of papers Thursday is being pored over by activists and media organizations for insight into Kavanaugh’s legal thinking. But it’s unclear how revealing the papers will be. One of the initial pages was a discussion of lunch plans.The records cast light on Kavanaugh’s role when he served in the White House counsel’s office. Documents regarding the selection of judicial nominees show he took an interest in news and editorial coverage of Democratic resistance to some of Bush’s early nominees to appellate judgeships. (2)>>scheduled 20 September vote. Because Republicans hold a majority in the Senate, confirmation is likely, But with the Senate narrowly divided 51-49. (3)>>National Security Agency's widescale secret collection of telephone metadata. Kavanaugh's complete record on civil liberties , Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based organization dedicated to digital privacy rights, worries that "he has a very broad view of the government's ability to do mass surveillance and specifically in the context where the government is claiming national security." Cohn has pursued a lawsuit alleging illegal NSA surveillance of "millions of ordinary Americans," among cases she said could eventually reach the Supreme Court. She questions whether Kavanaugh supports "real checks and balances on the power of the executive branch" on privacy issues. In a 2013 lecture , Kavanaugh talked about his appeals court's rulings in cases involving Guantanamo detainees and counterterrorism, saying he disagreed with people who believed "the courts should be creating new rules to constrain the executive — that this new kind of war requires new rules created by the courts."(4)>>Iraq War and its aftermath. Kavanaugh worked with G W Bush for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture of prisoners. He supports big business over employees, wardens over prisoners, the rights of the wealthy to steal elections. He refused a detained teen the right of an abortion. He ratified a DC agency forcing medical procedures on the disabled against their will.(5)>>Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Clinton, and the 2000 Florida ballot recount.Judge Brett Kavanaugh helped Bush steal the election in which the majority of voters voted for Al Gore. the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. With the Florida votes still undecided in December because of a state-mandated recount due to the razor-thin margin of the election results, Kavanaugh joined Bush's legal team, which was trying to stop the ballot recount in the state.Brett Kavanaugh’s involvement in deliberations two decades ago about whether to seek criminal charges against a top adviser to President Bill Clinton.A smattering of Kavanaugh’s memos from his work for Starr have been public for years as a result of previous Freedom of Information Act requests.describe his dealings with conservative media figures and activists while investigating the death of Clinton White House lawyer Vince Foster. Those contacts have fueled broader questions about Kavanaugh’s interactions with the press during his tenure in Starr’s office
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