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Hours before Brett Kavanaugh begins his Senate confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, the lawyer for former President George W. Bush released 42,000 pages of documents from the nominee’s service in the Bush White House — an 11th-hour move that infuriated Democrats.

“Not a single senator will be able to review these records before tomorrow,” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) tweeted late Monday.

The last-minute release of the materials comes as Democrats expressed alarm over Team Trump’s decision to claim executive privilege and withhold about 100,000 pages of documents from Kavanaugh’s time with the Bush administration.

Schumer dubbed that decision a “Friday night document massacre,” according to ABC News.

Bush lawyer William A. Burck said in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) that the 5,148 documents totaling 42,390 pages culled from the National Archives were to be treated as “committee confidential.”

Burck said lawyers working on behalf of Bush would determine at a later date which of the documents are “appropriate for public release.”

Taylor Foy, a spokesman for Grassley, said “our review team will be able to complete its examination of this latest batch in short order, before tomorrow’s hearing begins,” according to the Washington Post.

A few hours later, the committee said on Twitter that the “Majority staff has now completed its review of each and every one of these pages.”

The hearings are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, with opening statements by committee members.

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