Historic Transparency: Volume of Kavanaugh’s Public Exec Branch Material Tops Levels of Past SCOTUS Nominees
With latest release, more than 200,000 pages now public
WASHINGTON – Public
material from Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Executive Branch legal service now
exceeds that of any previous Supreme Court nominee. The Senate Judiciary
Committee today released more than 25,400 pages from Judge Kavanaugh’s service
as a White House lawyer, bringing the total volume of public Executive Branch
materials to more than 200,000 pages. The previous high water mark for
such material was roughly 180,000 pages released during the committee’s
consideration of Justice Neil Gorsuch.
The
Committee has received more Executive Branch records in its consideration of
Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination than for any previous Supreme Court nominee. The
material was initially produced to the committee by President George W. Bush on
a confidential basis while it was prepared for public release. Today’s release
is the fifth subset of that material to become public. It includes:
Nomination
material is being posted HERE
as it becomes available.
The
Chairman’s team has already reviewed more than 95 percent of the 408,000-plus
pages of material submitted by President Bush, as well as more than 22,000
pages of documents from the Office of Independent Counsel Ken Starr provided by
the National Archives and Records Administration. 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. At this
current pace, the Chairman’s team will read every page of Judge Kavanaugh’s
complete record well before the committee hearing begins on September 4th.
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