With Kavanaugh hearing set, Senate releases records

Although the battle over records related to Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s tenure in the George W. Bush White House continues, the Senate Judiciary Committee has recently released over 100,000 pages of documents. The first batch of documents, released last week, contained over 5,000 pages of emails from Kavanaugh’s stint as an associate White House counsel, a position in which he served from January 2001 until 2003. Hundreds (if not thousands) of pages from the initial batch of documents are completely nonsubstantive, made up of – for example – email headers from mass emails and computerized legal alerts to which Kavanaugh subscribed. Many other emails are somewhat cryptic, giving the distinct impression that staffers were trying to avoid getting into too much substantive discussion over email. But the emails also provide a detailed look into the operation of the White House counsel’s office, including the extent to which the lawyers’ work is often…

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