This is 42,000 documents of 100,000 requested by the US Senate Judiciary Committee. If Former President George W. Bush feels completely comfortable with opening White House documents to the Senate Committee perhaps the White House today will release the remaining documents.
September 3, 2018
Hours before the start of hearings on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination (click here) to the Supreme Court, the lawyer for former president George W. Bush turned over 42,000 pages of documents from the nominee’s service in the Bush White House, angering Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, who issued what is certain to be a futile call to delay the proceedings.
“Not a single senator will be able to review these records before tomorrow,” Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted Monday evening.
Taylor Foy, a spokesman for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), responded that “our review team will be able to complete its examination of this latest batch in short order, before tomorrow’s hearing begins.” A few hours later, a tweet from the committee said that the “Majority staff has now completed its review of each and every one of these pages.”...
