Profile in courage: Booker says he'll release 'secret' Kavanaugh email about racial profiling

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...just now in the hearing.

Says he realizes he could be "ousted from the Senate," and "accepts the consequences."

The 'secret' classification is an invention by the chair of the committee, not a law, not truly confidential documents being released, not a violation of anything but the chairman's arbitrary rules.

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Leaked Kavanaugh Docs here: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/269-kavanaugh-email-re-whether-roe/e6dbbda94dd204fe02af/optimized/full.pdf#page=1

[HipChick]

1. Gwan Booker...

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2. profile in courage

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...other Dems now speaking up in defense of his actions.


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💥Leaked Kavanaugh Docs here 💥https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/269-kavanaugh-email-re-whether-roe/e6dbbda94dd204fe02af/optimized/full.pdf#page=1 …

[Gothmog]

3. I have a ticket to hear Sen. Booker speak on Saturday night at the Texas state party fundraiser

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4. he's has my attention

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[Dem_4_Life]

11. Gothmog you are so lucky! What a fantastic experience!

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5. Booker gives

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These are the 4 documents marked committee confidential that Senator Cory Booker brought up in his questioning of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on September 5, 2018.
https://www.scribd.com/document/387988906/Booker-Confidential-Kavanaugh-Hearing

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8. Oh lord I could never be a lawyer. Reading that makes my hair hurt.

Also, I likely wouldn't pass the Bar Exam or any of the other requirements.

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9. you can look back

..follow along when you see experts explain excerpts that are relevant.

Nice to see so much of a paper trail, though. I can remember many conservative candidates who slipped past without much of a record of views at all.

Kavanaugh is clearly an ideologue who sought to advance many far right views and assaults on our liberties and protections.

[Adrahil]

6. Run, Cory, Run!!

I joke, but only a little.

If he exposes this bullshit for what it is, I think he has earned serious consideration for the nomination.

If he is kicked out of the Senate, making him President might be a good comeback.

[ProudLib72]

7. Cory Booker 2020!!!!

[Ilsa]

10. I just fell in love with this man.

Too bad I'm so old. And married.

[Solly Mack]

12. K&R

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13. Now I read that these emails were already cleared last night to be released.

So just another Senate hearing theatric. I've seen so many of these and its always the same, regardless of who is in charge.

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14. it's not really theatrics on Dems part

...considering that, if true, there was stonewalling from the WH until the last hour.

Given the reaction from the Chair and republicans on the committee, they were determined to keep up THEIR charade. Booker just smoked them out, called their bluff.

It was a marvelous sight to behold. Dems wrote the next act in that power play.

[Stellar]

15. Damn, Booker means business! nt.