Marc Thiessen: Dems ‘Are Desperate’ to Try and Stop Kavanaugh; There Are ‘Flailing’

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THIESSEN: "It is typical. If the Justice Department always does this process. It’s run by the office of legal policy. And in the case of judge Kavanaugh, the Democrats have been running around saying we have to delay this confirmation because the record is so voluminous. What Rod Rosenstein is doing is saying all hands on deck, I need 100 lawyers working on this so that we can go through this and get it ready for the Senate can confirm him. The Democrats can’t have it both ways. They can’t complain on one hand that there is such a voluminous record that we can consider it and then complain that rod Rosenstein is pulling all these career lawyers in to do this vetting. In the vetting is not political. This is what’s called a privilege and relevance review. What that means is career lawyers go through and see what record — go through all the records and see what can and cannot be shared with Congress. There are certain things that are executive privilege. There are certain things that are not relevant to the confirmation. He worked in the White House for a long time. His communications with the president are privileged for example. What they are doing is a nonpolitical review of what is privileged, what is not privilege, what can be shared, what cannot be shared, and later there’s a political review that is not done by career lawyers, done by political appointees helping him through that confirmation. This is standard operating procedure. It’s just there’s more of it. So they need more lawyers to do it well."