Today was the first day of the Senate hearings on the Amy Coney Barrett nomination.  This could have been a thoughtful day about the Supreme Court's role in the American government.  Because the Supreme Court is the only unelected branch of government, with people who have lifetime tenure, it would have been a good time to remind Americans that it should occupy a very narrow role in the government.  That's not what Democrat senators did.  They attempted to delegitimize the Supreme Court while painting Barrett as a cold-blooded killer. The goal here was a not very different from the goal during the Kavanaugh proceedings.  In 2018, Democrats had worked hard to diminish Justice Kavanaugh's standing.  As Christine Blowsy-Fraud's lawyer later said, Blowsy-Fraud's testimony wasn't about keeping him off the Court.  Instead, it was about putting "an asterisk next to" his...(Read Full Post)