“However, the confirmation process will be permanently broken.”
I hope that the Republicans decide that in the future there will be no more Judiciary Committee hearings on SC nominations. It isn’t Constitutionally mandated, and it has clearly become a circus. It, more than anything else, has become responsible for the 3+ months that it seems is necessary to confirm a person who has already been confirmed for high judicial office in the past (they ALL have been, sometimes multiple times when state appointments are considered). Get rid of it, open up the Advice and Consent function for a 2-day debate on the Senate floor, and be done with it.
I heard that back in 1962, the hearing for Byron White’s nomination was over and done in one day. And actually took less than a full day for the Senate committee of that time to do their work.
It seems you don’t really need a full week, and then wait for the political smears to come out, in order to fairly do the advice and consent role.