1/ Must read & spot on! My favorite points: Democrats do not want a model of constitutional fidelity and judicial restraint elevated to the Supreme Court. End of story.Advertisement And who can blame them? Republicans did not want the eminently qualified federal circuit-court
2/ judge Merrick Garland to be elevated to the Supreme Court.The only difference is that Republicans had the majority and the rules on their side. Now Democrats are out to prove that if you abuse the process until it becomes a circus, the rules don’t matter. AND
3/ Back in the Garland days of 2016, Republican control of the Senate meant there were civilized limits on opposition. The gentlemen were not willing to slander the gentleman as, say, a would-be rapist. But, in a stunning display of vertebrae, <-LOVE THAT!
4/ Republicans were willing to block the nomination, which they were legally entitled to do" AND "Even if they had not waived any right to a hearing, there would be no point in conducting one. Ford says a sexual assault happened, though she is sketchy on the details. Kavanaugh
5/5 says he had nothing to do with it, and he is adamant in his denial. A hearing would not establish either that the incident is a fabrication or that Kavanaugh is culpable. At the end of a hearing, we’d be exactly where we are now." Favorites, but READ the whole piece! END
