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Brett Kavanaugh’s unlikely story about Democrats’ stolen documents

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This article offers great details & shows Kavanaugh's denials are hard to believe, the Washington Post gives him 3 Pinocchio's.

Brett Kavanaugh’s unlikely story about Democrats’ stolen documents
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Graves — who published an op-ed arguing that Kavanaugh lied, and a joint op-ed with others along the same lines — had compiled all known precedents for releasing a nominee’s records from the Office of the Solicitor General in the Justice Department. The White House was arguing that Estrada’s records from that time were not subject to release, because prior nominees who had done stints in the solicitor general’s office had not released them, either.

Democrats expected that the records would show Estrada taking “far-right positions” on Miranda v. Arizona and on litigants’ basic right to counsel, Graves recalled. She set out to find all known instances of such records being released and gathered the examples in a memo.

Democrats never would have shared the memo, Graves said. It not only included all their best arguments — it also included their weakest ones, she said.

“It was written in case we had to hold the floor entirely,” she said. “It was our entire strategic defense.”

She added: “Kavanaugh was certainly a hardcore political operative. He would know exactly what this was, that this was secret research from the Democrats, from a Democratic lawyer, on the most important fight they were having, in the middle of that fight, on the most important issue that fight was about.”

We can’t imagine any reason Democrats would give away the store like this to Miranda, or any reason Kavanaugh would just keep assuming everything was normal at this stage.

Leahy’s office sent us its own copy of the nearly 4,000-word memo, which is virtually identical to what Miranda sent Kavanaugh.

article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/20/brett-kavanaughs-unlikely-story-about-democrats-stolen-documents/?utm_term=.05b47b23e833&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1




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