Discussion: National Archives Says Kavanaugh Doc Request Could Go On Through October

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National Archives Says Kavanaugh Doc Request Could Go On Through October

Good.

October of which year?

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Grassley will invoke the Spicer Rule™ asserting that records from Kavanaugh’s time as associate and senior associate counsel to Bush, and as staff secretary “are none of the American public’s business, as they would have happened before his nomination.”

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"Foy said “I expect the committee will be able to undertake its thorough review process along the same timeline set in previous Supreme Court confirmations.”

Grrrrrr. That would be ZERO, asshat. I demand that the hearings get EXACTLY the same timeline as the one set by the most recent SC confirmation.

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Committee Republicans have accused Democrats of trying to drag out the process.

The shameless hypocrisy of these people is unbelievable.

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Grassley is simply inking up the big rubber stamp. Let’s hope there is some way to stop this nomination; it is an election year, after all, right Leader McConnell?

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“…the George W. Bush Presidential Library…”

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Good. String it out. I don’t care if it “inspires” the traitors (Rs) to turn out in November. Get the skeletons out there. This guy has plenty,

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I guess I’m agreeing with Grassley on this one: Kavanaugh will be confirmed by the first Monday in October, documents or, better, no documents.

Great! Please don’t rush it!

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Seems like a good guy

Gary M. Stern Bio

Gary M. Stern has been the General Counsel of the National Archives and Records Administration since 1998, and is a career member of the Senior Executive Service. Mr. Stern also serves as NARA’s Chief Freedom of Information Act Officer, Senior Agency Official for Privacy, and Dispute Resolution Specialist. Mr. Stern earned his law degree in 1987 from Yale Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of International Law; he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in 1983, where he majored in Ancient Greek.

For the three years before becoming the National Archives’ General Counsel, Mr. Stern worked for the U.S. Department of Energy, where he was a senior advisor to the Secretary of Energy, a special assistant to the General Counsel, and assistant general counsel for contractor litigation. In 1994-95, Mr. Stern worked as a senior policy and research analyst for the U.S. Federal Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.

Before then, Mr. Stern worked as a staff attorney for the Washington Office of the American Civil Liberties Union, where he specialized in national security, classification, and information law issues. There, Mr. Stern participated as a plaintiff in Armstrong, et al. v. Executive Office of the President, involving White House e-mail recordkeeping practices, and also served as legal consultant to the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Declassification of Information for the Environmental Remediation and Related Programs of the Department of Energy.

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Dems need to filibuster

force it to 60 votes

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Guardians Of Pedophiles on the Senate Judiciary Committee: Grease, meet skids.

I believe we need to have some new rules for anointing Supreme Court Justices, beginning with one that states no one who, according to actuarial tables, may be involved if they are shown to have less than 40 years of their lifespan left.

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McConnell changed the rules—there is no filibuster for SC nominees.

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It’s payback time!