Not that anyone is going to care about my opinion, but I feel an urge to say this before any vote takes place: regardless of the actions of the Democratic party's leaders in the Senate, the accusation against the Supreme Court nominee deserves full investigation to the satisfaction of a supermajority of the American public, including into some of the questions that were new after yesterday's testimony. Republicans should use the ill timing of the Democrats against them at the ballot box, but confirming a nominee without further investigation and interviews will do harm to the Court. It appears to demonstrate a disinterest in gathering all possible information and will discourage others from coming forward. It is, in a word, silencing.
It is wrong to prioritize punishing Democrats (even those who would have already been voting no) over insuring public confidence in our courts. That has been signaled as the motivation for doing the vote now, and the GOP has a higher responsibility as the party in power.
The case will test what is left of the Voting Rights Act after the Shelby
County ruling.
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In 2013, a divided Supreme Court effectively gutted the key provision of
the law, but it left another tool intact. Now that provision, too, may be
at risk.
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