Democratic Senator Cory Booker released on Thursday a batch of emails from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time as a White House counsel. The approximately 12 pages of emails are tied to discussions Kavanaugh had on racial inequality including one email thread titled “racial profiling.”
The documents are marked “committee confidential,” meaning they are not supposed to be discussed or released publicly.
During a heated debate on Kavanaugh’s third day before the Judiciary Committee, Booker stated that he would release the email thread.
“I am right now before your process is finished, I am going to release the email about racial profiling, and I understand the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate,” Booker said at the hearing.
Fox News reported that Booker questioned Kavanaugh on Wednesday night about his stances on racial inequality, referring to emails from his time as a White House counsel for President George W. Bush.
In one of the emails, Kavanaugh questioned the Department of Transportation (DOT) affirmative action regulations.
“The fundamental problem, in this case, is that these DOT regulations use a lot of legalisms and disguises to mask what in reality is a naked racial set-aside,” Kavanaugh writes in one of the emails from 2001.
He adds that he believes four Republican justices will “realize as much in short order and rule accordingly.”
Tens of thousands of documents have been given to the committee under the label of committee confidential.
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