Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Democrats threatened Thursday to file a lawsuit to get access to documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time in the George W. Bush White House.

Schumer told reporters that Judiciary Committee Democrats “stand ready to sue” the National Archives and Records Administration if they don’t quickly fill requests from committee Democrats for records under the Freedom of Information Act. The confirmation hearing for Kavanaugh is set for Sept. 4, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said he wants a floor vote before Oct. 1.

Democrats sent nine such public records requests to the National Archives and other agencies seeking a full set of documents about Kavanaugh’s five years in the White House during the Bush administration, said Richard Blumenthal, a committee member.

Any member of the public could make a similar public records request. But Blumenthal said senators should be able to have the National Archives expedite it for a Supreme Court confirmation process.

“We need these documents to do our job,” Blumenthal told reporters. “We will be ready to go to court. I still have hope that they will in fact comply.”