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Sheldon Whitehouse Profile picture
@SenWhitehouse
Oct 8, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
In 2018, I pledged to Christine Blasey Ford that I’d keep digging until we got to the bottom of the Trump White House’s shameful confirmation process for Justice Kavanaugh.

I did, and today we have some updates. 🧵

washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…
My report shows that the supplemental background investigation was a sham, controlled by the Trump White House, for political cover to Senate Republicans to put Judge Kavanaugh on track to confirmation.

whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…
A full, proper investigation is the bare minimum that assault victims who come forward deserve.  Dr. Ford and Deborah Ramirez did not get one.
Senators who thought the FBI investigation was “by the book” were misled; there was no “book,” just White House direction and control.
Senators who claimed there wasn’t “corroborating evidence” were not told that the FBI was instructed to look only for direct, not corroborating, evidence.
Senators who relied on there being a “tip line” were not told that no “tip” was ever investigated by the FBI; all were delivered uninvestigated to the White House, and died there.
The Trump White House thwarted proper FBI investigation of the allegations against Kavanaugh, denying Senators information needed to fulfill our constitutional duties.
Senators, and the American people, deserve real answers — not manufactured misdirection — when such serious questions about a lifetime nominee emerge late in the confirmation process.

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Sep 17
Another low moment in yesterday’s hearing was Patel saying he and MAGA Bondi tried to get Epstein files out but judges wouldn’t let them.

Here’s what really happened:

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Federal judges (who are not idiots) know that ONLY grand jury documents are protected by secrecy rule.  

So why, two separate judges wondered, would FBI/DOJ release nothing FBI/DOJ had, and only try to release protected documents? Weird, huh?
Then the judges looked at the grand jury documents and noticed how few they were (a “snippet”) and how it was most ALREADY public. Oops.
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Sep 11
Republicans still grouse about Harry Reid “going nuclear” ONCE, way back in 2013, to undo their blockade of D.C. Circuit judicial nominees. Supreme Court nominees were negotiated out of that.

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Then, when Republicans had the majority and wanted to jam partisan justices onto the Supreme Court, they went nuclear. Happily. So much for their complaining; so much for the deal exempting the Supreme Court.
Senate Republicans have now gone nuclear THREE TIMES in the last few months (four, technically, if you count going nuclear twice in this episode). All the big talk while we were in the majority, all the early assurances — POOF! Pure fakery.
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Sep 4
After Trump’s fossil-fuel goons shut down Revolution Wind, I’ve been waiting for the phone to ring with the ransom demand.

But maybe this is attempted murder, not extortion, and there will be no demand.

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That moves us to litigation, where my experience tells me the discovery phase will be fascinating as the lawyers dig into the true motivations and scheming behind this ugly fossil-fuel thuggery.
In the meantime, it’s worth spotlighting the corruption. This is a switcheroo to replace the clean energy electrons from Revolution with polluting fossil-fuel-generated electrons, adding revenues to Trump’s political patrons and string-pullers.
Read 11 tweets
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Aug 30
Team Trump is purposefully raising your electricity prices, hoping you’ll be mad at your electric utility and not blame them. The benefit to them is extra dollars for their greedy fossil fuel donors.

Here’s how it works. 🧵
1. The Trumpsters make good on their crooked deal with fossil fuel donors to harass and harm fossil fuel’s clean energy competitors, competitors who actually made up 95% of all new power added to the grid last year.
2. Delaying that clean energy coming on line puts more dependence on polluting fossil fuel, so more pollution (they don’t care, they get to pollute for free) but also more consumption, meaning more revenue (bingo!) to fossil fuel.
Read 7 tweets
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Aug 8
Well, well, well. 

With Emil Bove safely through his sham Senate confirmation proceedings, the two Trump judges just lifted the three-months-long administrative stay that had kept any evidence of Bove’s contempt of court bottled up.

🧵

nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/…
It gets worse: the two Trump judges then used “mandamus” to undo the district court’s unappealable order and halt the contempt proceedings entirely. First, abuse of administrative stay, then abuse of mandamus, to shield Trump mischief from review.
At all costs, judicial inquiry into Trump Department of Justice contempt had to be stopped, even the MAGA AG trying to “create a conflict” with a bizarre ethics complaint against the United States district judge. Two Trump judges did the deed.
Read 5 tweets
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Aug 7
Why did I send this letter to the Chief Justice?

So he’d understand the full scenario that just touched the Judicial Conference (the administrative body of judges that oversees the operations of the Judicial Branch), which he convenes and chairs.

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The saga begins with the much-reported battle over illegal deportations that played out in federal court, in the courtroom of Chief Judge Boasberg of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, a respected veteran of decades on the bench.
Federal judges, particularly senior and respected ones, aren’t used to being conned, tricked or lied to, particularly not by the government. DOJ’s conduct in the deportation proceedings caused Boasberg to find probable cause of criminal contempt.
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