Should Brett Kavanaugh SCOTUS Nomination Continue?

[Final-Fan]

NightlyPoe said:

Final-Fan said:

Is it your position that smears against nominees in a confirmation hearing are more corrosive to the process than entirely blocking nominees from getting a confirmation hearing in the first place? 

Certainly.  Garland, at worst, had his time wasted.  His reputation is intact, enhanced even as no one bothered to speak out against him and he was gifted an (unjustified) reputation as a moderate.  No one's going to see what happened to Garland and have to think long and hard about whether they want to put their family through what he went through.

Basically, Republicans decided that they didn't want to vote on Obama's nominee.  It's not the first time that a judicial nominee has seen their nomination lapse by the other side running out the clock.  It's not even the hundredth time.

Personally, I would make a Senate rule whereby a vote is automatically called for after a certain number of days, but that rule doesn't exist.

Kavanaugh, on the other hand.  Well, people have stuck guns in their mouths and pulled the trigger over matters less vicious.  His wife and daughters will have to live with the whispers and venom.  I say this with seriousness, that anyone who goes through what Kavanaugh was put through should probably get counseling for both themselves and their entire family afterwards because an experience that traumatic will almost inevitably leave scars.

The two really aren't comparable.  One is a simple process decision that frustrates at most, the other is downright destructive by design.

Since Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court and Garland isn't, I think you're being selective of your evaluation of who was harmed more ("time wasted"="career advancement torpedoed"?), but I will agree that Kavanaugh took more emotional damage.  Either way I think our bigger disagreement is not who was harmed more personally but the topic referred to in the below quote: 

"Republicans decided that they didn't want to vote on Obama's nominee.  It's not the first time that a judicial nominee has seen their nomination lapse by the other side running out the clock.  It's not even the hundredth time."

How many of those times have been Supreme Court nominations? 

Last edited by Final-Fan - on 20 November 2018