Chuck Schumer's Plan To Stop Trump Ended In Catastrophic Defeat
Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are using the 2018 midterm elections as a springboard
to defeat Donald Trump in 2020.
And they settled on one fight to make that a reality.
But their plan just ended in catastrophic defeat.
Schumer and the Democrats are using every measure available to stop the nomination of
Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, which they believed would energize their base
heading into the November midterms.
Since Schumer and the Democrats lack the voters to defeat Kavanaugh outright, the left settled
on trying to kill nomination through death by a thousand cuts.
Schumer and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Democrat Diane Feinstein sent a letter to
the National Archives demanding millions of documents dating from Kavanaugh's time as
Personal Secretary in the Bush administration.
The position of Personal Secretary only manages the flow of paper in the Oval Office, so rarely
would Kavanaugh have put his own thoughts and opinions in writing, but Democrats hoped
that by bogging down the confirmation process under a mountain of documents, it would amp
up pressure on moderate Republicans to turn against Trump's nominee.
But the strategy officially failed when David Ferriero – the head of the National Archives
– informed Schumer that under the Presidential Records Act, the Archives could only respond
to a document request from a Committee Chair.
"In our conversation, you noted that the minority staff of the Judiciary Committee
believe that the special access section of the PRA could be interpreted to include requests
from the ranking minority member.
You then asked if I would seek a new interpretation of this provision," Ferriero wrote in response
to the Democrats document request.
Ferriero then rejected Schumer's request by informing him, "[it]must be from the
chair (or the committee itself), unless specifically delegated by the committee to the ranking
minority member."
Feinstein responded by basically whining that the National Archives following the law was
unfair.
"Your unduly restrictive reading of the law results in one political party having
complete control over what records the Senate will be able to see," the California Democrat
wrote.
Feinstein continued that "a biased denial of document requests to one half of the Committee
is unsupported by the law."
The letter from the National Archives drives the final nail in the coffin of the Democrats
strategy to stop Kavanaugh.
They couldn't defeat him outright, so they sought to delay the confirmation and hoped
a scandal would emerge or at least would keep him off the bench before the Supreme Court's
new term starts October 1st.
But Republicans had pledged to defeat any attempts to string along the Kavanaugh confirmation
by promising to hold the vote as close to Election Day as possible in order to inflict
the maximum amount of political pain on the Democrats.
In 2016, voters who put the Supreme Court as their top issue overwhelmingly voted for
Donald Trump.
So this is friendly political ground for the Republicans this election season.
They were more than happy to engage the Democrats in this battle, but the Democrats just played
their last card and their strategy went bust.
We will keep you up to date on any new developments in Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation
battle.
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