<p>Senators on Sunday released nearly 90,00 pages of documents on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh ;in advance of his confirmation hearing.</p>
<p>The documents, which detail Kavanaugh&rsquo;s time in the Bush White House, were released just days after Republican leaders announced that Kavanaugh&rsquo;s confirmation hearing would begin on September 4th.</p>
<p>The deadline ;gives Democrats little time to search through the documents for anything they could use to block Kavanaugh&rsquo;s path to the Supreme Court. ;In the meantime, on-the-ground resistance against Kavanaugh has dwindled as Democrats pour their energy into the upcoming midterms. ;</p>
<p>The upcoming confirmation hearing will involve one-two days of testimony followed by discussions from supporters and detractors about whether to confirm Kavanaugh. ;After that, Kavanaugh will ;have one week to answer a list of written questions. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a final vote two weeks later. ;</p>
<p>Democrats will then have a ;chance to stall Kavanaugh&rsquo;s confirmation with a filibuster &#8211; but they won&rsquo;t be able to block ;him unless they can win over at least one moderate Republican (this is unlikely). If all goes according to plan, Kavanaugh will be on the bench by October 1st. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;ll get confirmed. It won&rsquo;t be a landslide, but he&rsquo;ll get confirmed,&rdquo; said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). ;</p>
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<p>Judge Kavanaugh, who has worked for the DC Circuit Court since 2006, was nominated by Trump in July to fill the seat vacated when Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement.</p>
<p>Kavanaugh is the first Supreme Court nominee to have worked in the White House after the advent of email &#8211; meaning there is a &ldquo;record million-plus pages of legal opinions and emails from his career as a federal judge, White House lawyer, and assistant to the prosecutor who investigated President Bill Clinton,&rdquo; notes <em>USA Today. ;</em></p>
<p>Roughly 103,000 ;pages of information on Kavanaugh have been made public, but Democrats insist they need to see everything before they can vote. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;This is unprecedented and unfair to the American people,&rdquo; argues Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL). &ldquo;The American people deserve to know the true story the man seeking a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>Senators reviewed about 182,000 pages of information on Neil Gorsuch before confirming him to the Supreme Court last April.</p>
<p><strong>Author&rsquo;s Note:</strong> ;Justice Kennedy was a ;key swing voter serving with four Republicans and four Democrats.</p>
<p>Kavanaugh&rsquo;s confirmation will be a huge victory for Trump and for the Republican Party, because it will shift the balance of the court to the right for years to come. ;</p>