Senate confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s conservative nominee for the supreme court descended into chaos on Thursday, as Democrats insisted documents exposing Brett Kavanaugh’s opinions on contentious issues were being withheld from the public. In an email, Kavanaugh blanched at that description of Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 supreme court decision that effectively legalized abortion in the US. The documents, consisting of emails from Kavanaugh’s time in the Bush White House, were blasted out mid-morning on Thursday. The documents were labeled “committee confidential” which meant that they could not be made public or discussed in public. Burck also represents the White House counsel, Don McGahn, former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and former White House strategist Steve Bannon in the Mueller investigation.

Source: The Guardian September 06, 2018 15:37 UTC