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Feinstein Fighting Back at National Archives Over Kavanaugh Document Trove
http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/feinstein-fighting-back-at-national-archives-for-withholding-kavanaugh-documents-from-democrats
Democrats want to see information about Kavanaughs time working for Bush
Posted Aug 8, 2018 10:36 AM
Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein isnt happy with the National Archives.
The office is withholding documents related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh from Democrats on the panel.
Feinstein this week sent a letter to Archivist David S. Ferriero saying she is alarmed that he is denying minority members the materials necessary to fulfill their constitutional duty to provide advice and consent, while providing the materials requested by the Republicans.
The documents relate to Kavanaughs work as staff secretary during George W. Bushs administration. In a letter on Aug. 2, the archivist told Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer that Democrats could not access the information because the request didnt come from the Senate Judiciary chairman, Charles E. Grassley.
[White House Slams Schumer, Feinstein for Disingenuously Demanding Kavanaugh Docs]
Under your overly restrictive reading of the Presidential Records Act, minority members of the Senate Judiciary Committee now have no greater right to Mr. Kavanaughs records than members of the press and the public, Feinsteins letter reads.
No Judiciary Committee rule expressly prohibits the ranking member from requesting information on the committees behalf or provides that the chairman has exclusive authority, she added.............................
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., wrote in a letter that she is alarmed. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)
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Sen Diane Feinstein Fighting Back at National Archives Over Kavanaugh Document Trove (Original Post)
riversedge
Aug 2018
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spanone
(135,902 posts)1. K&R...
monmouth4
(9,711 posts)2. Love her, she's a real fighter..nt
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)3. KNR
Greybnk48
(10,177 posts)4. She's fought for us for years!
Sadly, some people want to say she's too old and out of touch, rather than tough, intelligent, savvy, and capable. I just ignore it.