RE: Honestly, I was asking that as soon as I heard she adopted two children from Haiti. Was every i dotted and every T crossed?
She has been thoroughly vetted, attacked and cross examined by the Democrats after her nomination to the 7th Circuit, just one notch below the Supreme Court... I don’t think the adoption issue was overlooked then. If it were an issue, they’d have stopped her cold during that confirmation process.
I just don’t know. As best as I got from watching her videos is that she has a good judicial philosophy but the video is a year old. She could just be going through the motions to get the job. I’m not the one who gets to talk to her and judge her. Her decision to allow shutdowns doesn’t strike me as originalist since you’d have to convince me that the authors of the constitution intended on a federal government ever having that kind of power and since they fought a war to avoid dictates of centralize power I strong doubt that. Why not decent even for the purpose of proving SCOTUS guidance.
I don't think so. There are hundreds of circuit court judges and only 9 supremes.
Investigating every circuit court nominee with the same fervor as is spent on a supreme would wear the RATs to a frazzle, and run them out of money.
But, I bet Trump's team looked into this and also asked her about it. OTOH she may have missed something and it could be discovered...