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Sep 7, 2018 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
A thread on recusals, which got all of 2 minutes of chatter the last 3 days:
Judge Kavanaugh listed 136 times he recused from a D.C. Circuit case in his @senjudiciary questionnaire (judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…). He couldn't recall the reason for 90 of them. 90 of them! That's nuts.
Let's start by looking at cases where he does recall why he recused. There's CREW v Office of Admin., on the millions of lost WH e-mails, i.e., the parody that writes itself. There's Jud. Cmte. v Miers, on the firing of U.S. attorneys. There's Wilson v Libby on the Plame affair.
