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  1. New: As GOP & Dems clash over access to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's writings as White House staff secretary, a case study in why that could matter: did he write a cover memo to Bush when giving him the famous torture ban signing statement? nytimes.com/2018/07/29/us/brett-kavanaugh-signing-statements.html
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      If a president's advisers disagree on the final text going into the Oval Office, a staff secretary explains that to him. We know (from emails released for Justice Gorsuch's confirmation) that there was a high-level Bush admin dispute over that statement at least at earlier stage.
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