This was not a confirmation hearing. This was a farce.
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1319768271122518017
No Supreme Court nominee has ever been confirmed this close to a presidential election? Republicans say “no problem” and plunge ahead with an illegitimate nomination made by a morally bankrupt president.
Rose Garden ceremony turns into a coronavirus superspreader event? Republicans brush it off and press ahead with hearings while members of the Judiciary Committee are in quarantine and others flat-out refuse to get tested.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are dead and millions are waiting for the federal government to fight this pandemic? Republicans say: Sorry, no time. We have better things to do than pass a relief package—like steal a Supreme Court seat.
Republicans broke every rule in the book, even the ones they'd made up. Barrett spent days ducking questions about issues of crucial importance. Her nomination was illegitimate, these hearings were illegitimate, and if confirmed, she will be an illegitimate Justice.
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