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Everyone please don't think that the current senate hearings are about the fitness of Judge KBJ to sit on SCOTUS. What we will see is grandstanding by Republican senators (and some speechifying by Democrats), most of whom are angling for a chance to run for president. So Hawley, Cotton, Cruz et al. know she is well-qualified to be among the supremes.
What is going on is grandstanding by some senators who now have a nationwide audience.
Th judge has been through confirmation hearings already three or four times to be an appellate court judge. What do they think they are going to discover in her more than 500 written opinions?
Same thing happened with Kavanough and Barrett.
Then there was the Senate’s refusal to hold hearings for Garland to replace Scalia 10 months before the end of Obama’s second term. Fast forward, Senate fast tracked Barrett despite the unknown if Trump would be re-elected.
Unless the Republicans set fire to the Senate during the hearings, they'll never top what the Democrats did during either Bork, Thomas or Kavanaugh.
Nobody in US history has ever grandstanded harder than Democrats vs GOP nominations in the post-Bork era. Nothing the Republicans do or have ever done comes anywhere close.
My! That sounds like whataboutism and 'tu quoque'. Whatever anyone has done to trash someone before, the GOP is acting silly now in naming things from its agenda for this year's election and several individuals trying to appear presidential
Everyone please don't think that the current senate hearings are about the fitness of Judge KBJ to sit on SCOTUS. What we will see is grandstanding by Republican senators (and some speechifying by Democrats), most of whom are angling for a chance to run for president. So Hawley, Cotton, Cruz et al. know she is well-qualified to be among the supremes.
What is going on is grandstanding by some senators who now have a nationwide audience.
Th judge has been through confirmation hearings already three or four times to be an appellate court judge. What do they think they are going to discover in her more than 500 written opinions?
The Democrat Senators (e.g. Kamala Harris in particular) did the same thing during Kavanaugh's hearing.
If anything, it makes them polarizing and probably less likeable to the general non political person, even though the Senator's national profile is increased out of it.
She will be installed, she already has the votes. the only thing worth listening to this week is what she says so that when the future happens and she chooses differently, we will know that she is a liar and a progressive woke activist.
What i also hate seeing is when the Dem senators talk to her, they have that stupid look on their face like they are so charmed by her. their tone is totally soft, meanwhile they treated the last 2 that Trump nominated like dirt.
Unless she releases her papers the GOP Senators can delay her from being approved from the committee until AFTER the midterm elections and then reject her outright when they take over the Senate.
My! That sounds like whataboutism and 'tu quoque'. Whatever anyone has done to trash someone before, the GOP is acting silly now in naming things from its agenda for this year's election and several individuals trying to appear presidential
No doubt. Never said that they weren't grandstanding, just said that until they set fire to the Senate, their hyperbole theater will never come close to the absurdity of Democrat hyperbole theater.
But for sure, all SCOTUS nominations seem to devolve into some level of hyperbole theater.
Bottom line, Democrats are way better at political theater. Republicans try, like they are now, but they'll always be understudies.
Then there was the Senate’s refusal to hold hearings for Garland to replace Scalia 10 months before the end of Obama’s second term. Fast forward, Senate fast tracked Barrett despite the unknown if Trump would be re-elected.
Weasels. All of them.
The refusal for Garland was largely unfair, Kavanaugh's contested hearing seemed like an attempted payback to Republicans or Trump, but it backfired for the Democrats.
The process of the Barrett's fast-tracking seemed fair though (although unfair only if you look back at the Garland delay) but Democrats really weren't in a place to do anything about it. RBG should have retired earlier, or Hillary should have campaigned better targeting the swing states in 2016, so that a Democrat President would be nominating a candidate.
In any event, the justice nominees are the ones that have to put up with all of it.
Wake us up when Jackson cries and announces she likes beer.
so you're good with pubs making false accusations at her for days on end to make her cry?
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