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The Normal Procedure for Supreme Court Nominations

Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation process was a norm-breaking extravaganza. The normal procedure for Supreme Court nominees is for documents and records about their backgrounds, their careers, their past time as federal judges to be reviewed before confirmation proceedings. But because Bart worked in the George W. Bush White House, there were tons of documents to review. And since NARA said that it would take months to review all of these documents, the Bush Library brought on private counsel to vet the records for relevance and privilege. This monstrous individual, Bill Burke, who is a managing partner at the Big Law Firm Quinn Immanuel,. He was named the guy in charge of this fake vetting process which kind of underscores

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