Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said on Monday that the Senate could know more about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s social life than his time doing legal work for the George W. Bush administration.
“I think the hearing that we had on his judicial philosophies was robust and full. We in the Democratic minority complained appropriately that we did not get access to the records of his service in the Bush White House,” Coons told Hill.TV’s Buck Sexton.
“Frankly, there’s recent press reports that Judge Kavanaugh is going to come forward with a detailed calendar of his social activities of the summer[s] of when he was in high school. If that’s given to the committee, then I’ll know more about his high school summer than I will know about the details about what he did in the Bush administration,” he continued.
“I don’t think we on the committee had enough access to emails, exchanges, and documents within the Bush administration to really fully assess his truthfulness in his 2004, 2006 confirmation hearings, or whether or not he was fully forthcoming in his testimony about the roles he played in the Bush White House,” he said.
Coons comments come days before Kavanaugh is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in response to sexual assault allegations.
One of his two accusers, Christine Blasey Ford, is also set to testify before the committee.
Ford accused Kavanaugh of holding her down and groping her over her clothes during a high school party in 1982, and Deborah Ramirez claimed he exposed himself without her consent during a gathering at Yale University a few years later.
Kavanaugh has denied the allegations.
— Julia Manchester
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