The muckraking, character-assassinating, ‘get-him-at-any-costs’ circus that Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation has devolved into is, sadly, the entirely predictable latest chapter of a book that repeats itself when a Republican president attempts to seat a Supreme Court justice. At one point during his epic, snarling, finger-pointing rant in the Senate Judiciary Committee last week Senator Lindsey Graham eyed Judge Kavanaugh and instructed him, “When you see Sotomayor and Kagan tell ‘em that Lindsey said ‘hello’, cause I voted for them!” Indeed, the Republican senator from South Carolina did vote to confirm both Sonja Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Among Republicans he was far from alone. When it comes to confirming justices to the Supreme Court bipartisanship exists only when the Oval Office is occupied by a Democrat, if the American people have handed the White House to a Republican -- get ready for a fight. Here’s the...(Read Full Article)