Article snippet: The Senate fight over documents related to MORE’s nominee to the Supreme Court is boiling over. Trump pick Brett Kavanaugh, a circuit judge since 2006 who previously worked for President George W. Bush’s administration and Kenneth Starr’s independent counsel investigation into former President Clinton, has a voluminous paper trail that lawmakers estimate tops a million pages. Democrats want to see as many of those papers as they can, while Republicans seeking to confirm Kavanaugh before the midterm elections favor a narrower scope. Battle lines are hardening, with senators trading accusations about whether a double standard is being applied to Kavanaugh, who if confirmed will shape the political leaning of the court for decades. The key part of the battle is Democratic demands for documents tied to Kavanaugh’s work as a staff secretary in the Bush administration. Republicans argue that Democrats are waging a “fishing expedition” to hunt for damaging information. “The complaint about documents is not about assessing his record in an open-minded, fair and dispassionate way. It’s all about the desire to obstruct and delay,” Senate Majority Leader MORE (R-Ky.) said from the Senate floor. Sen. MORE (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the panel, to sign off on a request for “an unprecedented volume of records” that would cover Kavanaugh’s time as a White House lawyer, according to a GOP Judiciary Committee aide. White House counsel Don McGahn met with GOP senators on Tues... Link to the full article to read more