Dems Make Losing Arguments Against a Judicial Star

Front Page Magazine ^ | Tue Oct 13, 2020 | Joseph Klein

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Senate Judiciary Committee began the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Monday to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The hearing is expected to last about four days. The first day was devoted to opening remarks by the members of the committee, with Judge Barrett delivering her powerful prepared statement towards the end of the day’s session.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, started things off by providing assurances that the in-person hearings were being conducted in compliance with CDC protocols. He praised Judge Barrett’s record and character. Graham acknowledged, however, that this confirmation process is “probably not about persuading each other.” He predicted that all Republicans on the committee will vote yes and all Democrats will vote no – a safe bet. He pined for the good old days when nominees for the Supreme Court were judged in a bipartisan fashion on their qualifications, not on the basis of their ideologies.

The Republican committee members lauded Judge Barrett’s sterling qualifications and character. They decried the Democrats’ attacks against Judge Barrett’s faith. They tore apart the Democrat members’ repeated predictions of how Barrett would vote on hot button issues such as Obamacare if she is confirmed. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, for example, said that Democrats should not presume that they know how a justice will vote on any particular case. He recalled how the left had originally condemned former Justices Anthony Kennedy and David Souter on ideological grounds and then turned around with praise for the opinions these justices wrote that conformed with the left’s desired outcomes.

[Secret Agent Man]

Fact is shes on the 7th circuit

don’t get there for doing nothing

further to get there, these very same people have already known her history because they had to review her and vote on her for the circuit court position she has

so shes obviously qualified for scotus based on this

this is really all kabuki because the libs already know they will vote against here regardless of their votes on her for the 7th circuit

its rrally laughable, the phony theatrics of it all

[Pontiac]

He pined for the good old days when nominees for the Supreme Court were judged in a bipartisan fashion on their qualifications, not on the basis of their ideologies.

If Ginsburg had been judged on her ideology, she would never have gotten a single Republican vote. Instead she got a vote of 98 to 2

I am not sure which is a better way for the Senate to judge judicial appointments.

I really don’t think Ginsburg was qualified to sit on the USSC.