Grassley, backed by other Senate Republicans, asked for all documents from Kavanaugh’s tenure in the George W. Bush White House as an associate White House counsel. “The committee will receive documents in an even more rapid fashion from the Bush Library as the Archives continues its statutory document review,” spokesman Taylor Foy said in a statement. “As a result, I expect the committee will be able to undertake its thorough review process along the same timeline set in previous Supreme Court confirmations.”That review process has already been conducted on a parallel track by a group of lawyers led by Bush’s presidential-records representative, Bill Burck. Nonetheless, the Archives’ timeline throws more political obstacles into the confirmation process for President Trump’s pick to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. After the Archives combs through all of the estimated 900,000 pages, more vetting would have to occur.

Source: Washington Post August 02, 2018 16:28 UTC