Grassley’s Kangaroo Court

[endicom]

National Review
Andrew C. McCarthy
Sept. 22, 2018

He must not let Democrats delay the Judiciary Committee’s hearing or turn it into even more of a farce.

So now it looks like next Thursday.

On Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s manifestly meritorious nomination to the Supreme Court, what was supposed to be the vote out of the Senate Judiciary Committee this past Thursday now appears to be sliding into a hearing to be held next Thursday. Or, who knows, maybe a Thursday or two after that. Or maybe The First of Never — though even that would undoubtedly be postponed to The Twelfth of Never.

Delay, delay, delay. It is what the Democrats want and it is what the Democrats are getting. They took the measure of their opposition and figured the GOP would bring a knife to a gunfight. From the first day of the confirmation hearing, committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) ceded control of the proceedings to the minority — in particular, to its ever-harder-Left, mak show presidential primary contestants.

It’s a kangaroo court.

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[skeeter]

McConnell wouldn't be out of line if he changed the rules completely to avoid this kind of sh*tshow in the future.

Advise and consent should be taken from the committee and instead made a one hour closed door special session by the entire senate with a vote immediately following. Even if the rats take the senate over how much worse could it be for us than it has been over the past thirty years? RBG was easily confirmed for crying out loud.

The rats have made a sham of the system they have now.