Committee Releases Additional Kavanaugh Records
More than 166,000 Exec Branch pages now public
WASHINGTON – The Senate
Judiciary Committee today released the fourth batch of records from Judge Brett
Kavanaugh’s service as a lawyer in the George W. Bush White House. The
release includes more than 42,000 pages of Executive Branch material. The total
volume of publicly available Executive Branch material for this nomination is
now more than 166,000 pages.
The
Committee has received more Executive Branch records in its consideration of
Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination than for any previous Supreme Court nominee. The
Office of President Bush has produced more than 238,000 pages of material to
the committee. The material was initially produced to the committee on a
confidential basis while it was prepared for public release. To date, nearly
two-thirds of that material has been released to the public. Today’s release is
the fourth subset of that material to become public. It includes:
The
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) also produced its second
set of material from Judge Kavanaugh’s service in the Office of Independent
Counsel Kenneth Starr. In this production, NARA approved 9,809 pages for
public release, and is withholding 2,540 pages in full or in part pursuant to
relevant and applicable Freedom of Information Act exemptions. The
committee will release this approved material to the public on Monday, when
NARA is expected to release the same material. At that time, the total volume
of publicly available Executive Branch material—more than 176,000 pages—will
exceed the volume of similar material available for the committee’s
consideration of Justice Kagan’s nomination.
Nomination
material is being posted HERE
as it becomes available.
The
Chairman’s team has already reviewed about 79,000 of the roughly 84,000
documents provided to the committee by President Bush as well as NARA’s initial
production of nearly 10,000 pages 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.
The
Committee expects to continue receiving future productions on a rolling basis
from both the Office
of George W. Bush and NARA.
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