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Democrats’ double standard on Judge Kavanaugh
Flash back to June 2010: Solicitor General Elena Kagan appeared before the Democratic-majority Senate for her confirmation hearing to the U.S. Supreme Court. “The Senate did not demand that the Obama administration provide the tens of thousands of pages from Elena Kagan’s tenure as Solicitor General,” Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ed Whelan writes in National Review.
“Never mind that Kagan, in stark contrast to Kavanaugh, had zero judicial experience and that her SG records would have been the materials most probative of her legal thinking,” Whelan continues.
Naturally, Senate Democrats should take the same principled stand for executive privilege when examining records for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Instead, less than one minute into this week’s confirmation hearing, Democrats began calling to adjourn the session altogether, citing insufficient information about the nominee.
In fact, “the Judiciary Committee has received the most comprehensive set of documents ever provided by a nominee to the Supreme Court, receiving more executive branch documents than the past five Supreme Court nominees combined,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) wrote yesterday.
“These documents are in addition to the most relevant portion of Kavanaugh’s extensive record; namely, the 307 opinions he authored as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,” Sen. Tillis added.
“Senate Democrats’ Disingenuous Double Standard”
Something to share: The New York Times on Kavanaugh vs. Kagan
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