‘Slack for the President?’ Not on Kavanaugh’s watch
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested attorneys preparing to question President Bill Clinton in 1998 seek graphic details about the president’s sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
The questions are part of a two-page memo in which Kavanaugh advised Independent Counsel Ken Starr and others not to give the president “any break” during upcoming questioning unless he resigned, confessed perjury or publicly apologized to Starr.
He suggested Clinton be asked whether he had phone sex with Lewinsky and whether he engaged in other specific sexual acts that he vividly described.
Kavanaugh worked on Starr’s team investigating Clinton. He said it may not be “our job to impose sanctions on him, but it is our job to make his pattern of revolting behavior clear — piece by painful piece.”
The memo was released Monday by the National Archives and Records Administration as lawmakers seek more details about Kavanaugh’s credentials to serve on the nation’s highest court.
In the subject line, Kavanaugh asks, “Slack for the President?”
Kavanaugh goes on to answer the question with a resounding no.
The release from the Archives comes before confirmation hearings for Kavanaugh, scheduled for the week after Labor Day. Kavanaugh has been making courtesy calls to senators and met Monday for about an hour with the senior Democratic member of the committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.
Democrats have asserted that Trump chose Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court because he would protect him from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.