Cory Booker Releases Confidential Document During Kavanaugh Hearing

[Uncle Joe]

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) released confidential emails from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh “about racial profiling” at the start of the third day of confirmation hearings on Thursday.

Booker had threatened to make the documents public, saying he would “knowingly violate” the rules and accept any punishment for his action, which he considered to be civil disobedience. Booker said the emails, taken from Kavanaugh’s time in the Bush White House, do not pose a threat to national security.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said the emails Booker referenced had, in fact, just been deemed non-confidential, saying “the process worked.” Lee offered to work with Democrats in the committee to make other confidential documents public, too.

When Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) reminded Booker that he could lose his seat for breaking Senate rules, prior to the documents’ release, Booker responded by saying “bring it.”

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cory-booker-kavanaugh-documents-confidential_us_5b91326ee4b0cf7b003d4cbe

Kudos to Cory Booker, Mazie Hirono and the other Democrats on the committee in support.


The document is on the link.

[PearliePoo2]

1. What's up with Mike Lee?

"Lee offered to work with Democrats in the committee to make other confidential documents public, too."

Are these e-mails public now?

Cornyn is despicable, as are most of the other Repugs from Texas! Come ON Beto!

[Uncle Joe]

2. I thought that was a fascinating development as well PearliePoo.

[rurallib]

3. I figured he was working some sort of scam cause that is what Republicans do

like the fox guarding the henhouse

[PearliePoo2]

4. There's no RePub walking the face of the earth that I trust as far as I could throw them.

I may be wrong, but I doubt it.