Brett Kavanaugh is a demonstrated hyper-partisan liar.

There's clearly a well-justified, albeit nefarious, reason that the White House and Republican leadership plotted weeks ago to keep fellow senators and the American people in the dark about more than 90 percent of Brett Kavanaugh's career in politics. The tiny fraction of records released that have been forced into public discussion (thanks to the rebellion of Democrats on the Judiciary Committee) demonstrates how willing Kavanaugh has been to perjure himself in order to advance his judicial career. The released emails also demonstrate that there is no privacy or national security concern Republicans can fall back on to justify keeping Kavanaugh's record in the dark. They're hiding his record because releasing it would demonstrate how unethical and hyper-partisan the man is.

In previous confirmation hearings in 2004 and 2006, Kavanaugh went to great lengths to separate himself from the tainted George W. Bush administration, which was a challenge since he'd been part of the Bush team since at least the Bush v. Gore litigation which resulted in the installation of Bush into the Oval Office. One of the things Kavanaugh did in the Bush White House was facilitate judicial nominations, and that's what he lied to the Senate about while under oath at least twice. In 2006, during his his D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals confirmation process, Kavanaugh told the committee that "This was not one of the judicial nominees that I was primarily handling," but the emails proved differently.

Charles W. Pickering was one of Bush's most controversial nominees for many reasons, like the time he tried to get the sentence of a man convicted of burning a cross in front of an interracial couple's house reduced. The emails show that "Kavanaugh helped work on a binder of documents about the judge […] to give to Senate staff members; drafted a letter to a senator about him; and handled a draft opinion article supporting his confirmation intended for publication under the name of Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel whose staff called him 'Judge.'"

Kavanaugh also lied to the Senate, while under oath, in 2004 when he said he hadn't had anything to do with the nomination process for the virulently anti-abortion Judge William Pryor, who famously called Roe v. Wade "the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law." Multiple emails showed Kavanaugh working on this nomination, including one in December 2002 in which he wrote "we perhaps should think about recommending Pryor for [the 11th Circuit]." Pryor was nominated for the lifetime appointment in April 2003. Republicans certainly needed to cover that up, just in case a few crucial Republicans decide to act upon principle and vote against Kavanaugh after his racist and anti-abortion views were shoved in their faces.

Then there's "memogate," the 2002 scandal involving a Senate Republican aide named Manuel Miranda who stole Democratic memos from a shared server and gave them to Kavanaugh.