Durbin: White House is saying 'American people have no right to know'

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Sunday that the Trump administration was violating a "tradition of the Senate" by withholding more than 100,000 pages of records related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time as a White House lawyer.

Durbin said on “Fox News Sunday” that by keeping those documents under wraps, the White House is telling the American people they have “no right to know” about Kavanaugh's background.

“If we’re lucky, we will see six percent of all of the documents that could be produced to reflect on Kavanaugh’s position on issues,” he said. “He is saying and the White House is saying, ‘The American people have no right to know.’”

Durbin, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, sits on the Judiciary Committee, which will hold its first confirmation hearing on Tuesday for Kavanaugh.

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