Committee Receives, Releases Additional Docs Ahead of Kavanaugh Hearing

WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee has received the fifth production from President Bush of material from Judge Kavanaugh’s service as a White House lawyer.  The committee also received Judge Kavanaugh’s D.C. Circuit nomination file from the National Archives and Records Administration. Subsets from both productions are now publicly available.  Following these productions, the committee has received more than 440,500 pages of Judge Kavanaugh’s Executive Branch material.  That’s more than the combined volume of similar material for the last five nominees confirmed to the Supreme Court.

 

A subset of the latest production of records from Judge Kavanaugh’s service in the White House Counsel’s Office during the George W. Bush Administration includes:

 

·       Cover Sheet

·       08-29-18 GWB Document Production (Pages 1 - 46)

 

The committee also received material from the National Archives and Records Administration related to Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.  This includes:

 

·       Cover sheet

·       08-29-18 NARA Nomination File Production

 

Nomination material is being posted HERE as it becomes available.

 

The Chairman’s team has completed its initial review of more than 440,000 pages of Executive Branch documents from Judge Kavanaugh’s work as a government lawyer. This includes more than 415,000 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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