What Are Republicans Hiding in Kavanaugh's Documents?

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🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Jess and Imani make sense of the Senate battle over the release of hundreds of thousands of documents related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Why have the Democrats threatened to sue, and what might we learn from the mountain of files if they are all released? Find out on Boom! Lawyered.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:05.0	Welcome to a brand new episode of Boom Lawyer, a rewire.
0:10.0	Dot News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is really excited to be back from our short summer break and ready to pour legal knowledge directly into your ear holes. I'm Imani, Gandy.
0:23.0	And I'm Jess Piclo.
0:24.9	Rewire.News is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive rights and social justice news, commentary, and analysis on the web.
0:32.7	And the Team Legal podcast is part of that mission.
0:35.5	So a big thank you to our subscribers and a welcome to our new
0:38.5	listeners. Yes, welcome. Thank you for joining us. We are back from our brief sabbatical to regale you
0:43.9	of news that, da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Democrats may have finally grown a backbone when it comes to
0:50.7	this Kavanaugh nomination, Jessica. It's shocking. I know.
0:55.0	Get out. It is shocking.
0:56.0	But it's true.
0:57.3	Sincerely, we even have audio proof.
1:00.1	Senator Blumenthal issued a FOIA request to the National Archives seeking the full gamut of
1:05.8	Kavanaugh's records, including his time as staff secretary.
1:09.9	We'd much rather follow the bipartisan process that's been around for years.
1:13.7	And today we're announcing that we stand ready to sue the National Archives for Judge Kavanaugh's full records if necessary.
1:21.7	Okay, so let's give this some context. The Democrats have filed a Freedom of Information Act request or a FOIA request, and that's
1:29.1	basically a letter that says, hey, give us these documents. And they filed one with the National
1:34.1	Archives who has all of Kavanaugh's documents. And they said, hey, give us the documents. And they're
1:40.8	threatening to sue if they don't get those documents answered before the confirmation
1:45.0	hearings. Those are set to begin right after Labor Day. So today, we want to talk about this big
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