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Feinstein, Senate Dems: You’re not giving us enough time to “vet” Barrett, IYKWIM

Let s take the process argument up again, however, in light of Democrats behavior in the last Supreme Court confirmation. Democrats had three months to prepare for Kavanaugh s confirmation, which Feinstein used to leak an unsubstantiated accusation of an assault at a teen-age party from decades earlier that not even the accuser s cited witnesses would back up. Senate Democrats then successfully delayed the process even further so that they could drum up even more unsubstantiated accusations, boosted by Trump-opposing attorneys (in both the Ramirez and Swetnick cases), allowing Senate Democrats to conduct a character assassination on Kavanaugh on national television.

That is how Feinstein and her colleagues view their constitutional role. I think we can pardon Graham for not allowing enough time for Senate Democrats to run that playbook against Barrett.

via hotair.com