Republicans shouldn't disarm in war over Supreme Court confirmations
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Senate Democrats in the Ketanjii Brown Jackson Supreme Court confirmation hearings could not believably claim that they voted against the Trump Justices because of their lack of qualifications.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch participates in taking a new "family" photo with his fellow justices at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 1, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS) FILE -- Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh stands during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on April 23, 2021. (Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images) Amy Coney Barrett listens as President Donald Trump speaks before Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administers the Constitutional Oath to Barrett on the South Lawn of the White House White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, after Barrett was confirmed to be a Supreme Court justice by the Senate earlier in the evening. ((AP Photo/Alex Brandon)) Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. ( ) WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 8: Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson meets with Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in Collins' office on Capitol Hill March 8, 2022 in Washington, DC. ( ) U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill March 23, 2022 ( ) WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 24: U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson arrives to the office of Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) for meeting on March 24, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) ( ) ketanjie-ACB-kavanagh (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin | Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)
The main reason has nothing to do with Jackson and everything to do with the confirmation process itself. Democrats decry Republican opposition as further evidence of the polarization of the confirmation process.