Committee Releases Additional Kavanaugh Records

WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee released the fourth batch of records from Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s service as a lawyer in the George W. Bush White House. The release includes more than 42,000 pages of executive branch material. The total volume of publicly available executive branch material for this nomination is now more than 166,000 pages.

The Committee has received more executive branch records in its consideration of Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination than for any previous Supreme Court nominee. The Office of President Bush has produced more than 238,000 pages of material to the committee. The material was initially produced to the committee on a confidential basis while it was prepared for public release. To date, nearly two-thirds of that material has been released to the public. This release is the fourth subset of that material to become public. It includes:

• Cover Sheet
• 08-15-18 GWB Document Production (Set 1, Pages 10,001 - 20,000)
• 08-15-18 GWB Document Production (Set 1, Pages 20,001 - 30,000)
• 08-15-18 GWB Document Production (Set 1, Pages 30,001 - 40,000)
• 08-15-18 GWB Document Production (Set 1, Pages 40,001 - 42,264)

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) also produced its second set of material from Judge Kavanaugh’s service in the Office of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. In this production, NARA approved 9,809 pages for public release, and is withholding 2,540 pages in full or in part pursuant to relevant and applicable Freedom of Information Act exemptions. The committee will release this approved material to the public on today, when NARA is expected to release the same material. At that time, the total volume of publicly available executive branch material—more than 176,000 pages—will exceed the volume of similar material available for the committee’s consideration of Justice Kagan’s nomination.

Nomination material is being posted HERE as it becomes available.

The Chairman’s team has already reviewed about 79,000 of the roughly 84,000 documents provided to the committee by President Bush as well as NARA’s initial production of nearly 10,000 pages of OIC documents. That’s in addition to reviewing other public material, including more than 10,000 pages of the judicial opinions that Judge Kavanaugh wrote or joined in his 12 years of service on the D.C. Circuit and more than 17,000 pages of material Judge Kavanaugh submitted to the committee in response to its bipartisan questionnaire.  

The Committee expects to continue receiving future productions on a rolling basis from both the Office of George W. Bush and NARA.

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