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Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
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Here’s my statement regarding the refusal by @senjudiciary Chairman @ChuckGrassley to request critical documents related to Supreme Court nominee #BrettKavanaugh’s work as a senior advisor to President George W. Bush⬇️
The blinking red question is, what are Republicans so scared of? What is so disqualifying in #Kavanaugh’s record from the White House that they would accede to the admin’s wishes & ignore the precedent Repubs set in demanding exhaustive document productions by Obama nominees?
The Senate and the American people should have this information. Republicans ought to join us in demanding it rather than fight to keep it in the darkness. What exactly are they trying to hide? #ReleaseTheRecords
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Part of why Putin poisons and murders people is to discourage that kind of cooperation. But if she does, there’s gotta be a lot she could tell prosecutors.
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Here’s the crazy loop: this indictment of Veselnitskaya/arose out of obstruction of a lawsuit /to seize proceeds of a fraud scheme /one of whose victims was Bill Browder/ whose lawyer Sergei Magnitsky /
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This is such bull***t.

First it was a hoax.

Then the science was uncertain.

Then we were “alarmists.”

Then any fix was too expensive.

Now it will be fixed with “innovation.”

thehill.com/policy/energy-…
As the truth emerges, they just fall back to a more credible trench to defend the same industry and its same smelly lies and big fat subsidy.

Give me a break.

Want “innovation”?

Put a #priceoncarbon, so you can reward investors in #carbon reduction;

Strip this crooked industry of its $700 billon/yr subsidy (just in US, per @IMFNews);
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Thank you to @MeetThePress for doing a Sunday show on climate change — at last.

Usually these Sunday shows are televised gossip columns, and climate change and other key issues are never discussed.
Good for you, @chucktodd.

At this stage, #climate denial is fraud, and it has been for a long time — particularly as practiced by the fossil fuel industry and its armada of phony front groups. thehill.com/homenews/sunda…
Precisely... axios.com/climate-change…
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#BrettKavanaugh is the ninth Justice of the Supreme Court. 1/
A man who has been proven to have lied under oath multiple times about his role in torture under Bush43 and about multiple details surrounding at least 2 (possibly 3) credible allegations of sexual assault made against him... 2/
A man who wrote that Native Hawaiians (and by extension Native Americans) are NOT due the terms of their treaties with the US—sovereignty over their own elections... 3/
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BREAKING

#Facebook SUPPRESSED A STORY About #BrettKavanaugh’s Opposition to Roe v. Wade. We’re Republishing It

#Kavanaugh said he would kill Roe v. Wade last week and almost no one noticed

#MOG
#MAGA theintercept.com/2018/09/14/fac…
#Kavanaugh needs to give #SusanCollins (R-ME) PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY regarding his anti-abortion views.

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#Kavanaugh’s views on abortion weren’t exactly a state secret

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Burck: Archives Agrees Leaked Docs are Legally Restricted from Public

@drawandstrike @ThomasWictor @HNIJohnMiller @catesduane @rising_serpent @_ImperatorRex_ @Debradelai @GodlessNZ @almostjingo @TheChillum

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WASHINGTON – The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) concurred with President George W. Bush representatives’ assessment that confidential records leaked by several Democrats are legally restricted from public release.
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I have this "thing". It really bothers me when the people, who are supposed to be served by their representatives over donor money, have documents withheld for a SCOTUS appointment.

So - stay tuned for a big Kavanaugh document dump.

#OpKavanaugh
1/ Booker - Confidential - Kavanaugh emails on race

documentcloud.org/documents/4834…
2/ Kavanaugh - President Grand Jury Testimony
documentcloud.org/documents/4742…
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NEW: NARA released the second set of documents related to Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh's time working for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr: archives.gov/research/inves…
Our lawsuit on behalf of @FixTheCourt keeps getting results. Given that an appointment to the Supreme Court is essentially irrevocable, the public has a right to know what's in Judge Kavanaugh's past.
Transparency must be part of Kavanaugh's vetting process. We've been going to court on behalf of @FixTheCourt in order to get records from DOJ and NARA and shed light on Kavanaugh's time in government: americanoversight.org/investigation/…
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