Give Us The Memos
Posted on September 18, 2005
Hat tip to Patterico’s Ponifications
Certain memos that could very well play an instrumental part in the confirmation process of John Robert’s are being concealed from the public. But we are not talking about the Solicitor General’s memos that are protected under a attorney-client type protection. Those wouldn’t reveal anything of substance anyway, despite all the whining by the democrats.
Conservative strategists are drafting a letter to Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee demanding the release of hundreds of internal memos detailing contacts between the lawmakers and liberal interest groups opposing John Roberts’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
By planning to press Democrats on the sensitive subject, conservatives seem to be pulling a page from the Democrats’ own political playbook. In the weeks leading up to the confirmation hearings, Senate Democrats have repeatedly called on the White House to give them memos Roberts penned while he was deputy solicitor general in President George H.W. Bush’s administration.The Hill
No telling the corruption these memos could reveal. For example, in 2003 it was revealed the democrats were in the pocket of liberal special interest groups. In one memo a democrat staffer said, all of Bush’s nominees are nazis.
Specifically, conservatives want access to what they estimate may be as many as 4,000 Democratic memos that are in Senate Sergeant at Arms William Pickle’s possession. Last year, Pickle seized Senate Judiciary Committee computers during an investigation. Democrats on the committee called for the probe after internal memos written by aides to Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) were made available to the press without Kennedy’s or Durbin’s consent.
The publicized memos detailed contacts between leading liberal members on the committee and groups that lobbied them on President Bush’s judicial nominees.
In their letter to Democrats, conservatives plan to argue that the memos are not protected by attorney-client privilege, giving them a stronger claim to the documents, they assert, than the Democrats have to the solicitor general’s documents. Roberts’s defenders have argued that a solicitor general’s relationship to a president is akin to an attorney-client relationship and deserves special privilege.
I have no reason whatsoever to believe the democrats are not still in the pocket of these liberal lobbiers. As a taxpayer paying their salaries, I think we should demand the release of these records. Since the democrats seemed so adamant about the release of all of Robert’s records, they should have no problem releasing these memos. As Patterico said, the American People deserve no less.
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Jay, OUTSTANDING… don’t suppose however it will do any good, the Dems have yet to abide by their own rules or agreements.
It’s about time that conservatives in congress get agressive somewhere (they are not agressive with controlling spending). I would love to see what are in these memos.
Turnabout is fair play. However don’t hold your beath, we’ll never see those memos, the most incriminating are being destroyed as we speak. Transparency in Government demands that we know what backroom deals are being made and if there is nothing to hide shouldn’t we be allowed to see for ourselves? But they will say they are being withheld out of principle, and since there is no criminal investigation being conducted they can destroy the evidence since it’s not yet evidence.