. . . and so, I submit, did Kavenaugh. He enabled it by committing to participating in another meeting. He should have announced that his participation in the proceedings was at an end - and left the room. That would have been a rebuke to Feinstein - but also to Grassley. Grassley would have had to either conduct the committee vote on schedule, or risk being seen as hopelessly weak by conducting a one-sided “inquiry” into a “he said, she said” situation.If the rest of Trump’s listed SCOTUS possibilities had already established the precedent of the letter I now propose, the whole thing would have been unthinkable.
Didn’t understand that last part about the letter.
I think the nominee is kind of on the hook, once the charge is made.