Politics

There Are Painful Problems in the Vetting of Brett Kavanaugh

MAD DASH

Why is Judge Kavanaugh’s former deputy allowed to decide which White House records we get to see? And what, exactly, is the rush?

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Arguably the most important domestic act of Donald Trump’s presidency—shifting the Supreme Court to the right—is being carried out in an unprecedented and, if the standards of the legal profession were being applied, unethical way.

That’s because the release of the records of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s conservative pick to replace...

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