I think this nominee is lazy.

[madaboutharry]

I think she is a skater. I think she is not intellectually curious. She is not a scholar.

She spent her adult life in a cocoon. She went to law school at Notre Dame, clerked for Scalia, and ended up teaching at Notre Dame - all in the cocoon of her Catholic belief system. She had enough substance to be taken seriously and was pushed along and groomed. She was groomed by the Republican Party and think tanks like The Federalist Society. I don't think she had to fight for anything. I actually think it has been easy for her and when things are easy you don't push yourself.

I don't think she spent all that much time preparing for this hearing. It seems the only thing she prepared for was repeating the lines for the reasons that she couldn't answer any questions and to sit there with a neutral face while she made a mockery of the confirmation process.

[Zoonart]

1. Unqualified, light weight, freeper.

[TwilightZone]

2. Not lazy, intentionally ignorant.

She's playing dumb, basically for no reason other than to appease Trump.

[Native]

8. and arrogant

[dalton99a]

3. She will be a reliable puppet. Even more reliable than Thomas or Alito

[Blue Owl]

4. The handmaid's role is to serve the head

n/t

[Mike 03]

5. Agree. I don't see her burning the midnight oil, losing sleep over cases or

torturously waging existential war with deep philosophical paradoxes to arrive at the proper legal conclusions.

[gratuitous]

6. Well, she said she wouldn't be a pawn

But I didn't hear her deny being a tool.

[Walleye]

7. Yes. I'm not impressed at all. She has such a rigid views. She doesn't need to think

[lostnfound]

9. She might change over time, and unfortunately, she will have a LOT of time

Her kids will grow up and get complicated. Maybe her husband will have an affair and leave her, or one of the kids will be out of the closet.
She will be in a room with the same 8 (or 12) people for years.
I think she will be a terrible vote for at least the next 5 years, but after that, who knows? Because she seems pretty weak but she will have actual power, and she will look for someone else on bench from which to take cues.

I’m not downplaying the terrible circumstances. I’m just not sure I’d count on stability in her world views when she becomes a member of a new, far more prestigious club — the SC. The Federalist Society is inside the walls of the SC but the People of Praise group isn’t.

Maybe Kavanaugh will try to grab her in the back room and she will sue him or quit. Maybe she will discover she likes Kagan or Sotomayor and start gradually shedding some of her beliefs.

Or maybe she will be impeached.