PAY ATTENTION: Republicans are trying to ram Kavanaugh’s nomination through without full transparency or accountability.
Historically, Democrats and Republicans have worked together to ensure that a Supreme Court nominee’s full record is produced prior to the nominee’s hearing and vote, but now Senate Republicans are refusing to produce Kavanaugh’s full record.
Republicans want to keep documents from 3 of the 5 years Kavanaugh worked in the White House hidden. Kavanaugh himself has said that those three years were “in many ways among the most instructive” to him as a judge. So how can they justify concealing these documents?
On top of that, just yesterday, the National Archives announced they can’t review and produce Kavanaugh’s documents from the other 2 years he worked in the White House until the end of October.
The American people have a right to see the full record of a potential Justice who will serve a lifetime appointment and decide issues that significantly impact the lives of all Americans.
It is also our *constitutional duty* as United States Senators to provide advice and consent on nominations. Frankly, every single one of the 100 senators should want to see Kavanaugh’s full record. It is our obligation.
Republicans’ next move is to try to push ahead with hearings and votes on Kavanaugh regardless of whether he is fully vetted. The only tool we have to stop them is public pressure. We need everyone shouting about this.
