President Trump speaks with Brett M. Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, and his family in the East Room of the White House in July. (Evan Vucci/AP)President Trump will not release more than 100,000 pages of records from Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh’s tenure in the George W. Bush White House, claiming they would be covered by executive privilege. A White House spokesman, Raj Shah, said Saturday that he will let the letter, first reported by the Associated Press, speak for itself. “Judge Kavanaugh, an associate and senior associate White House counsel, dealt with some of the most sensitive communications of any White House official,” Burck wrote. Burck noted that so far, the Archives has agreed with the “vast majority” of how Burck’s team has categorized Kavanaugh’s documents.

Source: Washington Post September 01, 2018 16:39 UTC