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FOIA News: Senate Dems sue for Kavanaugh docs

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Six Senate Democrats file FOIA lawsuit to force release of Kavanaugh documents

  • Six Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee including Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to force the National Archives and Records Administration and the Central Intelligence Agency to turn over documents related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

  • The suit, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, is in relation to three Freedom of Information Act requests submitted by members of the committee in early August.

  • The senators are demanding that the CIA and the National Archives produce documents related to Kavanaugh's time in the George W. Bush White House within twenty days of a court order.

By Tucker Higgins, CNBC, Sept. 17. 2018

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