Eighty-eight of Amy Coney Barrett's Notre Dame faculty colleagues have written an open letter to her asking that she request a postponement in her confirmation hearing until after the election. The fact that the hearings are taking place right now should be evidence enough that Barrett understands that she was nominated to do a job. Her acceptance of the job of undermining our democracy, just as surely as Vladimir Putin has done, was confirmed when she accepted the nomination. Fat chance she will do the right thing for the country.
The rushed nature of your nomination process, which you certainly recognize as an exercise in raw power politics, may effectively deprive the American people of a voice in selecting the next Supreme Court justice. You are not, of course, responsible for the anti-democratic machinations driving your nomination. Nor are you complicit in the Republican hypocrisy of fast-tracking your nomination weeks before a presidential election when many of the same senators refused to grant Merrick Garland so much as a hearing a full year before the last election. However, you can refuse to be party to such maneuvers. We ask that you honor the democratic process and insist the hearings be put on hold until after the voters have made their choice. Following the election, your nomination would proceed, or not, in accordance with the wishes of the winning candidate.
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