Associated Press
A Senate Democratic leader Tuesday urged a Bush-appointed judge to recuse himself from cases involving enemy combatants and requested an explanation about information that might contradict his testimony about the White House’s detainee policy.
“It appears that you misled me, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the nation,” Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois wrote to Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
He urged Kavanaugh to remove himself from “all pending and subsequent cases involving detainees and enemy combatants.” Kavanaugh’s court gets more detainee cases than any other.