Let's hope the senate does their job this time on confirmation.
I've seen the routine over and over when a Supreme Court nominee comes before the committee. The Republicans pick an apparent religious nut job and the questioning almost exclusively focuses on abortion. They ask how he (of course it'll be a man) feels about Roe/Wade, how he sees a woman's right to choose, and about reproductive freedom, as if asking the question in a different way might catch the nominee up.
Meanwhile, the approved judge turns out to be a phony religious zealot who plays the part of a corporate shill. Abortion is a vital issue, sure, but the obvious goal of the Supreme in my lifetime has been to make big companies into huge companies, and huge companies into mega-corporations that rule against the working class thanks to a rubber stamp on mergers.
Let's ask this one how he feels about too big to fail, and if he agrees that it's a fact, ask if maybe he can put a halt to the seemingly endless mergers that are creating monopolies rivaling the age of the robber barons. Ask if corporations might have too much power to legislate through lobbying and campaign influence.
As I said, abortion rights are important, but Chief Justice Roberts himself said he doesn't expect the court to ever decide to overturn Roe/Wade, but democrats take the bait every time. It's time to find a justice who doesn't think he's the personal attorney for the Koch brothers.
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