Bush Library sends Senate committee 7,000 pages of Gorsuch documents

The George W. Bush Presidential Library has handed over to the Senate Judiciary Committee more than 7,000 pages of documents related to President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.

The documents were posted to the committee’s website Friday, and first reported by Politico on Saturday.

Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) had previously requested Gorsuch-related documents from the library last month.

{mosads}The request included any emails between Gorsuch and the White House while he was serving as principal deputy to the associate attorney general under former President George W. Bush.

So far, the Justice Department has turned over more than 144,000 pages of documents on the nominee to the committee.

Gorsuch, a judge on the Denver-based 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, was tapped for the Supreme Court last month, and has garnered sweeping support among Republicans.

But his confirmation will likely need 60 votes in the Senate to avoid a filibuster, and Republicans only hold 52 seats. Some Democrats have floated the idea of blocking Gorsuch’s confirmation, citing the GOP’s refusal to hold a hearing for former President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland last year.

Garland’s nomination was effectively killed after Trump took office and tapped Gorsuch for the high court.

If Gorsuch is confirmed, he will take the vacant seat left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last year. The Supreme Court has had only eight justices for more than a year.