Judicial Transparency Group 'Fix the Court' Presses for Kavanaugh Documents

Judicial transparency group Fix the Court continues to try to get info on Brett Kavanaugh's time at the White House and working on the Starr Report. Kavanaugh, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, was nominated this week to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Kennedy is exiting at the end of July.

The group filed two lawsuits following unfulfilled FOIA requests for documents and now has followed that up with an appeal of a FOIA decision by the George W. Bush Library and Museum. The museum determined that Fix the Court's request for Kavanuagh's White House counsel and staff secretary files would take 20 years to fulfill and would not include several thousand pages (13,943 to be exact) that were exempt, mostly under the Presidential Records Act. "Given Mr. Kavanaugh’s status as President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, substantial and significant public benefit would result from the timely disclosure of the requested records," Fix the Court wrote in filing its appeal with the library.