Byron York‘s latest piece for the Washington Examiner disputes the notion that President Obama’s latest Supreme Court nominee has a sparse “paper trail”:?
“We’re talking about tens of thousands of pages,” says Susan Cooper, spokeswoman for the National Archives and Records Administration. “It’s a massive job.”
Cooper is discussing the work of processing papers from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s two years, 1995 and 1996, in the Clinton White House Counsel’s Office. During that time, Kagan, like any overworked staff lawyer, handled a wide variety of issues and wrote or contributed to thousands of memos, e-mails and other documents. Those papers, boxes and boxes of them, are at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, under the supervision of the archives.
You’ve probably heard a lot of talk about Kagan not having a paper trail. It’s not true. In fact, she has a long paper trail. The only question is whether the senators who vote on her confirmation will be allowed to see it.
