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Um to be fair, Schumer's daughter, um she's worked in this area. Like, wasn't she

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also the top lobbyist for Amazon at one point? I mean, does he have multiple daughters or is she literally been the

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top lobbyist for Amazon and for like Facebook? Yeah. So, he has two daughters.

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Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I'm getting confused. I'm getting confused. Jessica, who now works for OpenAI, was a leading

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figure in or arguably the leading uh figure in New York State for Amazon.

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This was they got their butt kicked on Amazon HQ2 uh the where AOC and uh Mike

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Janerys and others pushed back on the subsidies that New York State was prepared to give to Amazon to build a headquarters in Queens. Uh turns out

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also Amazon's not finishing the efforts they started in uh uh Virginia, Northern Virginia that the ones who supposedly

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won the Amazon contract that turned out to be uh worthless. Um but uh so she did

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six years there. Uh her sister works at Meta. So yeah, so now we've got you have

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a Meta official and a former Amazon who's now open AI. And I think that that reflects the fact that OpenA's eyes

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3/14/25 schumer dems roll on CR that empowers doge

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John Blasto uh named who used to

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be the chief of staff for Andrew Cuomo and is now a top staffer for the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, Chuck

Schumer, who said last year that they are building a strategy to ensure that quote pro- crypto voices are heard in

key races all across the country. So this is the top of the Democratic party endorsing corrupting cryptocurrency money in primaries.

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The fight for our democracy won’t be won by appeasing bullies

Supporters of Donald Trump celebrate after the Fox Network called the election in his favor at the site of his rally, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

Thom HartmannNovember 13, 2025

What we witnessed this weekend in the United States Senate wasn’t “compromise.” It was surrender: the kind of gutless, morally bankrupt capitulation that betrays American families and feeds the billionaires devouring our democracy.

Eight senators who caucus with the Democrats joined Republicans to end the government shutdown, not in victory, not to secure healthcare for millions, but to hand Donald Trump and his morbidly rich cronies a gift-wrapped political win.

And standing at the center of this disgrace is Chuck Schumer, the so-called “leader” of the Senate Democrats, who orchestrated — or at least approved or failed to stop — the entire debacle from behind the curtain, then had the gall to vote “no” at the last minute to wash his hands of it.

Let’s be clear: this was Schumer’s deal. He built it, he pushed it, and he enabled it. His fingerprints are all over this betrayal.

And what did Democrats get in exchange for reopening the government? What did the American people get? Nothing.

Not a penny restored to Medicaid (or the hit Medicare will take in a year under Trump’s Big Ugly Bill). Not a rollback of Trump’s rescissions that gutted essential agencies. Not even a meaningful vote to protect Affordable Care Act subsidies or food stamps.

The so-called “promise” of a vote in the Senate within 40 days is a joke, a political placebo meant to sedate the public while the insurance industry counts its profits.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was right to call Sunday evening’s vote a “very bad night.” The deal explodes health-care premiums for over 20 million Americans and paves the way for 15 million to lose coverage altogether.

That lack of coverage, experts estimate, will cause 50,000 preventable deaths a year. These are real people and their children, their deaths sacrificed at the altar of Trump’s and the GOP’s lust for wealth and power.

And it wasn’t just cowardice: it was also cash.

The health-care industry owns far too many Democrats, and this vote appears to prove it. The same corporations that profit from denying you care are stuffing the pockets of the very lawmakers who just “compromised” your future.

When Democrats vote with Republicans to gut health care, it’s not bipartisanship. It’s corruption, legalized and laundered through Citizens United campaign finance loopholes created by five bought-and-paid-for Republicans on the Supreme Court. Bribery by another name.

Schumer has presided over this kind of rot for years, protecting incumbents who serve donors instead of voters, blowing up efforts to promote genuine progressives like Bernie in 2016, while building a machine that runs on Wall Street money and insurance and banking industry cash. He was so ineffective he couldn’t even stop Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema back in the day, even though he wields enormous power.

Schumer’s’ leadership — and, generally, the leadership of the Democrats since the 1990s Clinton years — have turned the Democratic Party from the party of FDR into a cautious club managed by well-paid consultants who tremble at their own shadows while they fill their bank accounts with blood money.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, Trump is showing us exactly what real political power looks like, as well as what it fears.

The simple reality is that Trump was about to break. He was freaking out.

Before the eight senators caved to the GOP, Trump was so frantic that he was demanding Senate Republicans end the filibuster altogether, so he could “ram through legislation that will make sure no Democrat ever gets elected again.”

GOP leaders — including (and especially) Senate Majority Leader John Thune — are terrified at the possibility of ending the filibuster, not out of principle, but out of self-preservation. They know ending it could expose just how extreme and deranged the Republican agenda really is.

As I’ve argued before, the filibuster has been a scam for a half-century, a tool that since the Reagan era both Republicans and corporate Democrats use every year to fool their base and donors into thinking their hands are tied.

It obscures Republican radicalism, while similarly protecting the so-called “moderate” Democrats who spit-shine the boots of their corporate masters.

Trump believes killing the filibuster will increase his power. In reality, it would tear his party apart and lay bare its madness for the world to see because Republicans could no longer say, “We couldn’t pass that bill to [fill in the blank] because those damn Democrats filibustered it.”

But the filibuster should be ended, and if these eight Democrats hadn’t surrendered, Trump might have forced it. That would’ve been the best thing for America.

And make no mistake: Trump’s terrified or he wouldn’t have even considered killing the filibuster. As Steve Bannon bluntly said, if Democrats ever regain full control, “a lot of Republicans are going to prison.” Presumably including Trump himself.

Compounding Trump’s freak-out, alleged horrors are leaking out about how Trump appears in the Epstein files. Reporter David Schuster noted:

“A few GOP House members say they’ve heard from FBI/DOJ contacts that the Epstein files (with copies in different agencies) are worse than Michael Wolff’s description of Epstein photos showing Trump with half-naked teenage girls.”

Trump knows what’s in those files; he partied with Epstein for a decade and is now throwing bennies at Ghislaine Maxwell to try to keep her quiet. That’s why he’s trying to distract his supporters by hosting his Great Gatsby parties at Mar-a-Lago, making incoherent threats about cash check “rebates” to Americans and war in Venezuela, and hustling billions from foreign dictators to insulate himself and his boys before the walls close in.

If Democrats are going to really confront Trump’s authoritarianism and the corporate corruption that fuels it — which is absolutely necessary now to rescue and sustain American democracy — we need a Senate leader with a spine, not a strategist for surrender. Chuck Schumer’s brand of 90s politics, to triangulate, capitulate, and hope nobody notices, has failed us for decades.

He embodies the rot of the old guard: a generation of post-1992 Democrats who think fundraising prowess equals political courage.

It doesn’t. Times have changed, and we’re now standing in the midst of a progressive populist era. Just look at New York’s mayoral race.

Leadership means fighting for working families, not finessing deals for donors. It means standing up to Trumpism, not whispering in back rooms while pretending to resist.

We need new leadership. America — and Democrats — deserve statesmen and women willing to call out corruption in their own ranks, to reject the blood money of lobbyists, and to stand unflinchingly for universal healthcare, living wages, and democracy itself.

Americans are sick of being sold out. We’re done watching our supposed champions cave while billionaires pop champagne. The fight for our democracy won’t be won by appeasing bullies or bowing to donors.

It’ll be won when Democrats rediscover their courage, and when Chuck Schumer finally steps aside to be replaced by a true fighter.

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When it comes to their strategy in the fight with Democrats over government funding and another looming government shutdown, Republicans say just let Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) keep talking, reports The Hill.

“I think he’s disconnected from the reality of what’s happening on the ground in a lot of places,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), told The Hill.

“People don’t want dysfunction. They don’t want a government shutdown. They don’t want people taking a stand on stuff that doesn’t impact them or they don’t understand," she said.

“Yeah — it’s good for him to talk,” she added.

An anonymous Senate GOP aide agreed, telling The Hill, "Let Schumer be Schumer."

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"That’s kind of one of our strategies," Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) noted.

Schumer took enormous heat from his own party after voting for the GOP's yearlong spending stopgap, The Hill reports. In March, he broke with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to back the “clean” continuing resolution.

"Republicans are more than willing to let Schumer’s words carry the day," The Hill says, describing it as "music to Republicans' ears."

“He is in the most precarious political position of everybody, and I’m not sure that he can survive it,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) told The Hill.

“I do so see him as vulnerable and I think he sees himself as vulnerable, and I think it’s both paralyzing to him and ineffective in communicating," Cramer added.

Schumer, for his part, is trying to pressure Republicans to reach across the aisle.

“Donald Trump has told Republicans ‘don’t even bother.’ He said ‘don’t even bother’ negotiating with Democrats. And they have, unfortunately, dutifully obeyed,” Schumer said. “Democrats don’t want a shutdown. But Republicans cannot shut Democrats out of the process and pretend like the last nine months have been business as usual.”

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One of President Donald Trump's biggest supporters in the U.S. Senate has now co-signed a letter with his Democratic counterpart demanding the president comply with a federal law he recently ignored.

On Friday night, Trump announced he was firing 18 inspectors general throughout various federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Labor, State and Health and Human Services. This was done in violation of the Inspector General Act, which requires that a president give Congress 30 days advance that he plans to fire an inspector general — which is an independent watchdog that calls out waste, fraud and abuse — and give a specific reason for their firing.

And on Tuesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) both signed a letter to Trump, pointing out that the firings were illegal. Politico legal correspondent Kyle Cheney posted the full text of the letter to Bluesky.

"Congress was not provided the legally required 30-day notice and case-specific reasons for removal, as required by law," Grassley and Durbin wrote. "Accordingly, we request that you provide that information immediately."

"While IGs aren't immune from committing acts that require their removal, and they can be removed by the president, the law must be followed," they continued. "The communication to Congress must contain more than broad and vague statements, rather it must include sufficient facts and details to assure Congress and the public that the termination is due to real concerns about the inspector General's ability to carry out their mission."

In addition to providing rationale for their firing, both senators insisted that Trump reinstate the fired inspectors general on an "acting" basis during the 30-day period and "work quickly to nominate qualified and non-partisan individuals to serve in those open positions." Trump has not yet responded to the letter.

As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Grassley is perhaps the most critical in implementing Trump's policies pertaining to immigration, which is under his purview. Grassley's committee will also have to vet all of Trump's nominees to the federal courts, including anyone he nominates to succeed retiring Supreme Court justices. And as a 91 year-old senator who isn't up for re-election until 2028, Grassley is virtually untouchable in the Hawkeye State, which he has represented for more than 40 years.

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When President-elect Donald Trump begins his second term on January 20, 2025, Republicans will have control of both chambers of Congress.

The GOP will have a 53-47 majority in the U.S. Senate under Sen. John Thune (R-South Dakota), and a small Republican majority will still control the U.S. House of Representatives — although it remains to be seen whether or not Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) will continue as House speaker next year.

Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D-New York) time as Senate majority leader is winding down. But according to Politico's Eugene Daniels, Schumer has been trying to prepare for 2025 by helping make the federal judiciary as Trump-proof as he can.

READ MORE:['Red meat for MAGA': Trump said to be prepping 'early shock-and-awe campaign' in new term

"Four years ago," Daniels reports in the Politico Playbook column, "Schumer launched a plan, along with President Joe Biden, to use the party's Senate majority to prioritize not just passing legislation, but also, pushing through as many judicial nominations as possible…. And now, those judges are likely to be the tip of the spear in protecting Democrats' legislative achievements over the last four years — as well as Republican attempts to remake or dismantle parts of the federal government."

Schumer told Politico, "When we started out, we knew it would be a very difficult job to do more than Trump had done. But we did: We got 235 — more than a quarter of the federal judiciary was appointed by our Senate and by the president…. We knew that getting more judges on the bench would help protect our legislative record."

The Senate majority leader added that legislative accomplishments and judicial appointments "go hand in hand."

Schumer told Politico, "If you asked me which one was more important, I wouldn’t want to pick among my children."

READ MORE:['Poor information ecosystem': How QAnon-style 'disinformation' made Trump victorious

According to Schumer, him and Biden have been very much in sync when it comes to getting federal judges confirmed."

"When I became majority leader," Schumer told Politico, "I said, 'This is something we have to work on, we have to focus on.' We would go to members and persuade them in two ways: Persuade some of them to vote for these judges because the Republicans threw all kinds of charges — mainly false — against them. And second, I had to persuade them that this was really important.

Schumer also told Politico, "I don't know exactly what (Trump will) do. But I can tell you this: The judiciary will be one of our strongest — if not our strongest — barrier against what he does."

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Frank Gaffney calls Sen. Chuck Schumer a "Court Jew" and claims the "psychology" of Jews is "pretty twisted" | Media Matters for America

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Editorial Board, as I hope you have noticed, is not in the business of making arguments for the sake of argumentation. It does not invest time in fights over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. (The Editorial Board, for this reason, will never see The Big Money. It's too shrewd.) It works hard to read politics critically and come to concrete conclusions for the sake of normal people and the common good.

There's a reason I say this. Sometimes the Editorial Board is ahead of the conventional wisdom in Washington such that when the conventional wisdom in Washington eventually catches up, there's a feeling of whiplash. Before this past week, I'd been arguing for a year or so that the nightmare will not be over after Donald Trump's presidency comes to an end. (There are reasons aplenty, but primarily no matter the crime, obscenity or moral outrage, about 40 percent of the electorate approved of Trump during his term.) Then this week, the conventional wisdom in Washington appeared to awaken to oh my God the nightmare isn't over how could this happen! I scrambled for a day to find out what I missed. Turns out I didn't miss anything.

Something triggered the prevailing discourse, though. I'm not sure what. Perhaps it was the Republicans in the United States House of Representatives knocking Wyoming Congressman Liz Cheney from the leadership. Perhaps it was the Republicans at the state level passing laws to suppress voting. Perhaps it was the Republicans in both chambers of the Congress opposing a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 sacking and looting of the United States Capitol. Perhaps it was the GOP doing the most unbecoming thing of all in Washington: sticking with the loser. Whatever the reason, this week's punditry seems to finally recognize the nightmare for what it is.

Here's Paul Waldman, a columnist at the Post: "Because his party has so aggressively worked to twist and corrupt the US electoral system, [Donald Trump] could clearly lose both the popular and electoral votes and still become president again." Here's Perry Bacon Jr., also a columnist at the Post: "Presented with a clear chance to move on from Trumpism after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the GOP has instead continued its drift toward anti-democratic action and white grievance. The future looks scary."

This part, from Bacon, is the scariest to me: "If Republicans win the governorships of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin next year, taking total control in those key swing states, they could impose all kinds of electoral barriers for the next presidential election. The Republicans are laying the groundwork to refuse to certify a 2024 Democratic presidential victory should the GOP hold a House majority."

There are many examples of the conventional wisdom in Washington getting triggered now for some reason instead of, I dunno, after an attempted coup d'etat. All of them, however, focus on the United States Senate, especially Joe Manchin, the conservative Democrat from West Virginia, who is key to passing a major democracy reform bill, the one thing that will do the most to prevent the country from sliding into autocracy. I wrote about Manchin Tuesday. I suggested there's hope for passage. But even as I was writing the piece, something was happening to give us even more hope. The fact that nearly everyone missed it seems to illustrate the conventional wisdom's myopia.

And when I say nearly everyone missed it, I mean nearly everyone missed it. The only two people to report on what Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday were Ryan Grim and Sara Sirota from The Intercept, and since I don't trust anything from The Intercept, I tracked down what Schumer said myself, and whaddayaknow? Schumer said what he's been saying for months, which is the filibuster is not going to get in the way of democracy, because democracy is too important. Here's the quote1:

The letter that Senators Murkowski and Manchin talked about, which was the Voting Rights Act, is actually authorized through 2032. So, their letter to us saying authorize it, well, it's pretty much done for—we'll all be in the Senate here in 2032, and I think we look forward to voting on it. Look, the bottom line, as I said, S.1 is very, very important to our democracy. You cannot let millions of people's rights be taken away. Senator [Gary] Peters [of Michigan] gave a little presentation also on how it would affect elections in key states and how it would have changed things dramatically. One of the things that stuck out in my mind was that … in Wisconsin, the vote in the House of Representatives, 53 percent of the vote was Democratic, but the Republicans had some huge percentage of the seats. I think it was two-thirds. These kinds of things just are abhorrent to our democracy and we must change them, and we will. And as I've said before, failure is not an option and everything will be on the table. We're continuing [to] have the discussions within the whole caucus.2

It baffles me why this was not more widely reported. I mean, here's a Democrat saying another Democrat is wrong. Isn't there a law requiring journalists to report "Dems in disarray"? It didn't get play in the Post, the Times, the AP, Reuters, Bloomberg, USA Today, none of them. Only The Intercept, which deserves credit for reporting that Manchin's and Murkowski's proposal to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act made no sense whatever given that it's already been reauthorized. I did not know that, but I'm also not a member of the Washington press corps, people you'd expect to know that.

Importantly, Schumer said failure is not an option and everything will be on the table. That suggests that nixing the filibuster is 1) optional and 2) increasingly optional in the face of things that are abhorrent to our democracy. Schumer added that we must change them, and we will, which suggests when not if. The question, therefore, is timing. And timing is going to be determined primarily by how the Republicans are willing to behave.

I think it comes down to this. Are the Republicans going to act less fascist than they have been since January 6? If the answer is yes, then the Democrats are in a pickle. They won't feel the pressure necessary for enacting sweeping democracy reforms. If the answer is no, then the Democrats are going to be in a position in which they are forced to act in ways that would ordinarily seem nakedly partisan. To build the pressure necessary to nix the filibuster, though, they are going to need the conventional wisdom in Washington to be on their side, which is to say, conventional wisdom saying that it's OK to act nakedly partisan. I think this past week saw the beginning of that process.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing a resolution that would change the Senate rules to speed through more of Trump’s District Court nominees and sub-cabinet nominees. But Republicans would likely need to drastically change the filibuster rules to get it approved.

McConnell’s push comes after the Senate Rules Committee in February voted to limit debate time for Trump’s sub-cabinet and District Court nominees to two hours after procedural votes, The Hill reported. The current debate time is 30 hours.

In a Senate floor speech Thursday, McConnell claimed that the move was necessary because of “unprecedented obstruction” by Democrats. The speech came after Trump insisted to McConnell in a closed-door meeting Tuesday that he wanted his nominees approved faster, Politico reported.

“A minority of senators have used Senate procedure to systematically prevent the president of the United States from putting a full team in place,” McConnell said Thursday. “The American people deserve the government they elected.”

The majority leader claimed that the rule change would also benefit Democrats because the current rules would subject future Democratic administrations to “the same paralysis.”

After his speech, McConnell likened his resolution to former Democratic leader Harry Reid’s order that sped up the process for approving President Obama’s District Court judges and sub-cabinet nominees. Reid effectively eliminated most filibusters for these nominees but left in place the 30-hour post-cloture debate rule.

“A number of members on the other side have said they’d be more than happy to support it provided it took effect two years from now, so they know it’s not an unreasonable proposal,” McConnell told Politico.

But the resolution needs 60 votes to pass and Democrats are far from eager to go along with a plan that would let Trump speed through the 128 District Court and sub-cabinet nominees currently pending in the Senate.

Senate Republicans say that they are ready to invoke the nuclear option to scrap the filibuster and rewrite the Senate rules with a simple majority vote, The Hill reported.

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blasted the move, accusing McConnell of trampling longstanding Senate rules to appease the Trump administration.

“Sen. McConnell’s approach has always been to manipulate Senate rules when it helps him and then change Senate rules when the tables turn,” the New York Democrat said in a statement. “This is just another step in his effort to limit the rights of the minority and cede authority to the administration.”

McConnell’s complaints are especially rich given that Reid only changed the rules to get around the obstruction led by McConnell. McConnell slowed judicial confirmations down to the slowest level in 60 years, Politico reported at the time. The Senate confirmed just 20 district and circuit court judges in Obama’s last two years in office despite dozens of unfilled positions, while the Democratic-led Senate in the final two years of the George W. Bush administration confirmed 68 federal judges. And after stopping Obama from filling the many vacant seats, McConnell denied any hearing whatever for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland.

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One of the top concerns of Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding President Donald Trump's Supreme Court Nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, is whether he knew anything about, authorized, or advised the Bush administration on their torture program for detainees in the War on Terror while he served as White House staff secretary.

In 2006, during his confirmation to the D.C. Circuit, Kavanaugh told senators, under oath, that he was "not involved in the questions about the rules governing detention of combatants," and had no knowledge of issues about "the legal justifications or the policies relating to the treatment of detainees," according to NBC News. However,Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) assert that multiple documents and email chains show Kavanaugh was briefed on the issue, implying he was not honest with the Senate.

Some of the documents Judiciary Democrats say prove Kavanaugh's knowledge of the torture program, and potentially even suggest that he perjured himself in his earlier confirmation, have been marked "Committee Confidential" by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) — meaning that even most senators are not allowed to review them.

Also of concern is whether the White House is playing any role in steering document requests. On Friday, Leahy submitted a letter to White House Counsel Don McGahn, demanding to know what was discussed at a meeting between him and Judiciary Republicans regarding Kavanaugh.

According to a press release from Leahy, prior to the meeting on July 24, Republicans were prepared to ask the National Archives to release documents produced during Kavanaugh's time as White House Staff Secretary for former President George W. Bush. But after the meeting, Republicans refused to do so, allowing a limited release of documents curated by "a lawyer representing the former president."

"In the 44 years I have served in the United States Senate, I have seen 19 nominations to the Supreme Court, including the nomination of every current member of the Court," said Leahy. "I have never before seen the White House, under either a Republican or Democratic president, usurp or direct the parameters of the Judiciary Committee’s document request regarding a Supreme Court nominee. I find it troubling that the White House and Judiciary Committee Republicans are stifling transparency rather than working together to provide the necessary documents for the Senate to do its work. The American people deserve the unvarnished truth about Judge Kavanaugh."

McGahn has played a critical role in getting Trump's parade of far-right judicial nominees waved through the Senate, and has expressed his avowal to put two Supreme Court justices on the bench before leaving his role in the White House.

In addition to pressuring Judiciary Republicans to release the full set of documents,Senate Democrats have also filed a Freedom of Information Act request, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has threatened to sue the National Archives to make them public.

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