The confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s pick to the Supreme Court, hit a major snag Thursday. Republicans asked the National Archives and Records Administration last week if it could release thousands of documents relating to Kavanaugh’s time in the White House Counsel’s Office for President George W. Bush by Aug. 15. That would give Senate Judiciary Committee members enough time to review the documents ahead of a likely hearing in September and allow for a final confirmation vote by the start of the new Supreme Court term on Oct. 1. But the National Archives has threatened to upend that timeline. Circuit Court judge’s work in the Counsel’s Office, which “could be more than 900,000 pages.” Grassley did not request any additional documents pertaining to Kavanaugh’s time as Bush’s staff secretary.

Source: Huffington Post August 02, 2018 17:13 UTC