Thread by @JudicialWatch

BREAKING: The Senate Select Committee on Ethics refuses to take action on Senator Cory Booker who admitted he willfully violated Senate rules by releasing “Committee confidential” docs on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time as a WH counsel. (1/8)
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Judicial Watch’s September 2018 complaint to the chairman and co-chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics called for an investigation after Senator Booker admitted to violating Senate rules in releasing the confidential material. (2/8)
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Senator Booker admitted to breaking these Senate rules when he issued a tweet on 9/7/18: “Weds—I broke committee rules by reading from ‘Committee confidential’ docs.” (3/8)
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Senator Booker posted on Facebook on 9/9/18: “[T]he classification of many documents as ‘Committee confidential’ is a sham… I willfully violate these sham rules. I fully accept any consequences that might arise from my actions including expulsion." (4/8)
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Judicial Watch noted in its complaint that Senator Cory Booker also uploaded these “Committee confidential” records to a publicly accessible Dropbox account with the heading “Booker Confidential – Kavanaugh Hearing Documents.” (5/8)
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By violating the rules in releasing Committee confidential records, Senator Booker appeared to have violated provisions 5 and/or 6 of Rule 29 of the Standing Rules of the Senate, which stipulate he should be subject to expulsion from the Senate. (6/8)
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Judicial Watch President @TomFitton: “It is an absolute disgrace that the Senate Ethics Committee is giving Senator Booker a pass for willfully violating Senate rules by leaking confidential information to smear Justice Kavanaugh.” (7/8)
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Judicial Watch President @TomFitton: “The Senate continues the abuse of Kavanaugh and his family by refusing to act against a Senator who, pretending to be Spartacus, violated the rule of law and our Constitution in trying to destroy him.” (8/8)
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