Read the National Archives' sassy response to lawmakers' requests for Brett Kavanaugh's entire legislative history

Brett Kavanaugh.
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's paper trail is more like a long and winding road, and the National Archives wants senators to know it.

The request for records from Kavanaugh's work under former President George W. Bush won't be ready until late October, the National Archives told Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in a letter Thursday. Grassley requested the records July 27 and wanted them before Aug. 15, but the Archives' letter shut that down by illustrating just how massive Kavanaugh's records are.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.