Will all-talk Jeff Flake act on court nominee?

Sen. Jeff Flake has talked tough about President Donald Trump, but that’s about as far as he goes. Talk.

Last week, the Washington Post contacted all Republican members of the Senate and other congressional leaders and asked them to chat briefly about the president’s most recent racially charged comments.

Most refused. Not Flake.

He told the Post, “It started long before his campaign, the whole Barack Obama, the birtherism ... that was abhorrent, I thought. And then you know, the Mexican rapists ... on his first official day as a campaign. And then you know, Judge Curiel, the statement that he couldn’t judge because of his heritage. Failure to, you know, condemn in Charlottesville. Just the willingness to go there, all the time. Muslim ban. This kind of divide-and-conquer strategy. It’s just — it’s been one thing after another.”

That sounds good. It actually IS good. It’s just not good enough.

When it comes right down to the nitty gritty — to casting votes — Flake usually toes the presidential line. According to a statistical analysis by the website FiveThirtyEight, Flake casts votes for the Trump position 83.3 percent of the time.

The outrage over the president is, for the most part, all talk.

Next up for Flake in the category of the put-up-or-shut-up is the Senate hearing over the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Flake is considered by some to be on the very short list of Republican senators who remain on the fence about Kavanaugh. I doubt that.

I’d guess that Kavanaugh’s antiabortion views, among other things, would have Flake on his side.

But there is something Flake should do before that vote. He should side with the senators trying to make public all of Kavanaugh’s papers from his time at the Bush White House.

Three Democratic senators on the Judiciary Committee, of which Flake is a member, wrote to chairman Chuck Grassley, saying, “We firmly believe that Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination cannot be considered unless these documents are available, including to the public and the Senate as a whole.”

The senators make the argument that only “3% of his (Kavanaugh’s) record has been made available to the Committee, and 98.4% of his record is being withheld from the full Senate and the public. By comparison, for Elena Kagan’s nomination, 99% of her White House records were made available to Congress and the public.”

In addition to criticizing Trump, Flake talks a good game about fairness. About honoring the traditions of the U.S. Senate.

Now is his chance to prove it. The Democrats suspect that Kava-

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Jones parted ways with DeSoto in July of 2017 to launch a full-service version of his food counter, The Larder + The Delta, which opened in August. Connelly turned most of the spaces vacated by Jones over to Jeremy Armstrong.

Christian Buze, the grandson of Elizabeth White, recently joined DeSoto with The Root and Soul, a contemporary soul food counter that opened in April.

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He hopes to find a new home and be cooking shortly.

“I kind of took the day to process everything and I’m going to get on things tomorrow looking for a new location and hopefully settle in the Roosevelt area,” Buze says. “I’m optimistic a new door will open.”