Democrats’ ‘Norm’ Is Brutalizing The Reputations Of Republican Court Nominees
For the last 30 years, Republican nominations for the Supreme Court have faced personal, ugly, defamatory attacks from Democrats.
By John Daniel Davidson
September 24, 2020
We’ve been hearing a lot from Democrats and the media this week about how President Trump and Senate Republicans are “violating norms†with their plans to nominate and confirm a Supreme Court justice before the November election. Of course, the clear historical norm in this situation is for a sitting president to nominate and, if his party controls the Senate, for the Senate to confirm a new justice — even in an election year.
The norm Republicans are following isn’t the one that should concern us — it’s Democrats’ long-established norm of character assassination, outright lies, and ugly, personal attacks against any Republican nominee to the Supreme Court.
Every time a Republican president has nominated someone to the Supreme Court in the last 30 years, with one notable exception, Democrats have responded by smearing the nominee with accusations of ideological extremism, racism, misogyny, sexual harassment, plagiarism, and, most infamously in Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s case, gang rape.
The Kavanaugh confirmation hearings stand out not just because they were the most recent but because they were such an ugly and outlandish spectacle. Democrats, aided by a media establishment that gladly discarded all professional standards, tried to paint Kavanaugh, an eminently qualified jurist and a decent man, as the leader of a gang rape squad. His confirmation hearings in 2018 were a fiasco and marked a new low for Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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