Over at TPM, Josh Marshall urges Democrats in Congress to refuse to participate in the confirmation of Trump far right wing Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. Senate Republicans already committed to vote for whoever Trump nominated, so there should be no expectation that any of them will take a principled stand and oppose her nomination or vote against her confirmation. Why should Democrats give this sham process any oxygen?
President Trump has now, unsurprisingly, chosen to nominate the far right Amy Coney Barrett to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. The only sensible approach is for Senate Democrats neither to meet with Barrett nor participate in the confirmation process at all. Even to do so in a critical posture is to add legitimacy to a process that is illegitimate.
You can’t insist a process is illegitimate while granting it legitimacy, while arguing within the questions the process raises. In this context, participation amounts to begging. Begging is weak. Democrats need to make clear that the only answer to Republican court-packing which will toss millions off health care, cripple voting rights, further limit reproductive rights and more important than anything be a decades-long veto over all progressive legislation is to elect Democrats and repair the damage in 2021.
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