Citing executive privilege, the White House told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) that the privileged documents outline internal deliberations of the Bush White House and “advice submitted directly to President Bush,” Bush’s lawyer, William Burck wrote in the letter obtained by the Times.
sooooo, beauty is in the eye of the majority.
The documents also reportedly “reflect deliberations and candid advice concerning the selection and nomination of judicial candidates, the confidentiality of which is critical to any president’s ability to carry out this core constitutional executive function,” Burck said, according to the Times.
someone should get W’s or Cheney’s thoughts on this.
Whose executive privilege?
So continues the constitutional crisis that began on November 8, 2016.
Were it a Democratic nominee, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
Kavanaugh appears to be poison for the bench. We will end up with him anyway, because the GOP is making America over in their own image and no one will stop them. The media is complicit. The Dems haven’t enough power.
No one will stop this.
I would like to see W weigh in on this. They are his records after all.
Maybe Kavanaugh will be asked lots and lots of questions by Democrats on the Judiciary Committee which relate directly to matters covered in these 100,000 pages of documents. Maybe Kavanaugh will deny doing and writing things which the documents prove he did do and write while working in the Bush White House. Maybe Kavanaugh will be confirmed and, someday in the not-too-distant future, the documents will become available. And maybe, just maybe, Kavanaugh will be facing impeachment for lying under oath to Congress. Hey, a person can dream, right?
Merrick Garland who?
I know why Shrubya won’t release the records — to hide evidence of involvement in war crimes. I wonder if Obama is doing it for the same reason?
Maybe someone here knows: can the dems shutdown the committee hearings by denying the Rethugs a quorum?
Yes. But they would need one Rethugliklan to join them.
Article I, section 5 of the Constitution requires that a quorum (51 senators) be present for the Senate to conduct business.
While I feel the same way, Trump’s lot will claim that the paperwork is archival.
I would like to see that candid advise. Is the advise that bad?
Were it a Democratic nominee we wouldn’t be having a hearing or a Senate vote.
In the short term, perhaps, but what happens in the future when attitudes and demographics change and the conservative SCOTUS justices are firmly mired in the past, making judgements that states and people kiss off because they aren’t representative of the citizenry? The GOP is little by little turning the SCOTUs into an anachronistic relic.
The way I read this Burk is, was, Bush’s lawyer so he is claiming executive privilege.
has this been done before?
As Bush is no longer president, and there is no innate continuum between Bush and Trump, I find this declaration on the dodgy side of bullshit.
So do I. The privilege doesn’t belong to Kavanaugh - it belongs to W and this makes no sense.
Is there exec. privilege post presidency? Does it end with Bush’s death? If this is law, then the law is an ass.
ETA …and an assassin of history.