If a nominee dodges questions about foundational concepts, there’s simply no basis for senators to make an informed decision about a nomination beyond blind partisanship — which is what they tend to use anyway. … Barrett’s evasiveness (which, to be fair, has been practiced by other nominees, as well) is the confirmation hearing’s version of “taking the Fifth.”
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I’m a political independent. But I don’t want to lose my health care. I don’t want the planet to suffer more than it already has because of global warming. I don’t want to see more victims of police brutality, because I can put myself in the shoes of those whose lives are put at risk. And I don’t want armed militias roaming the streets when I go out for dinner and a movie.
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Comparisons of Republicans to Nazis have been popular in some quarters, and I’m going to make one here. But it’s not a moral comparison, it’s a tactical one. Republicans are doing the same thing Hitler did when he took over one European state after another — after pledging not to — and British leader Neville Chamberlain let him do it. Instead of satisfying him, it made him more aggressive.
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