Democrats' non-persecution of Amy Coney Barrett

[Zorro]

By Aaron Blake

Over the course of Amy Coney Barrett’s two days of questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republicans repeatedly went after Democrats for the resistance they had put up — often arguing that they had attacked her personally and for her religion.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said Democrats were “attacking somebody for their faith and suggesting that that disqualifies them from holding public office."

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) accused Democrats of playing the “politics of personal destruction.” She told Barrett that her Democratic colleagues on the committee “seem to be quite amazed that you could balance career and family.”
“And to my friends across the aisle, I would say that the American people are no more afraid of the ideas of a Catholic woman than they are of the words splattered on a protest poster being held by a liberal woman,” Blackburn added.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) repeatedly alluded to the idea that Democrats were attacking Barrett for her Catholic faith. On Monday, he suggested that merely raising the landmark Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, “I can only assume is another hit at Judge Barrett’s religious faith.” On Tuesday, he added that “we were assured that you would not be attacked on the basis of your faith; I noticed that didn’t last 24 hours.” And on Wednesday, he invoked Robert Bork, the Supreme Court nominee whose 1987 nomination Republicans accused Democrats of defeating by nefarious means: “His name has become a verb: the Bork-ING of nominees. I think what we’ve seen today is an attempting Bork-ING of Judge Amy Barrett.”

In reality, what we saw this week bore little resemblance to the GOP caricatures of a nominee being railroaded, including because of her faith.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/15/democrats-non-existent-persecution-amy-coney-barrett/

[beachbumbob]

1. GOP and trump were hoping for a kavanaugh outcome of turning her

into a victim by the democrats which could impact the election vote. In what I saw, that never happened.