Brett Kavanaugh White House emails released by Cory Booker cite Cleveland voucher case
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the legality of Cleveland's school voucher system was cited in emails to and from current Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh released Thursday by New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
Booker, a potential Democratic presidential candidate who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the committee's Republicans improperly designated the documents he released as "confidential," when they illuminate Kavanaugh's thinking on hot-button issues like racial profiling and affirmative action.
"The public has a right to access documents about a Supreme Court nominee's views on issues that are profoundly important, such as race and the law," Booker said as he released the emails. "This process has demonstrated an unprecedented level of secrecy and opaqueness that undermines the Senate's Constitutional duty to advice and consent."
A few of the emails that Booker released referred to a 2002 Supreme Court decision that allowed public money to be spent on tuition vouchers that Cleveland students were using to attend religious schools The decision said Cleveland's voucher program didn't violate a constitutional prohibition against promoting religion because religious schools were among a variety of secular and religious options available to parents who were frustrated with the city's public schools.
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