Their Brutal Kavanaugh Smear Operation Disqualifies Democrats’ Demands About Next Nominee

It is hard to care about propriety when two years ago Democrats served as accomplices to Christine Blasey Ford, who offered false testimony, under oath, to the U.S. Senate in an attempt to thwart the Supreme Court confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh.

The brute exercise of political power has consequences and counters, but Democrats' decision in 2018 to collude instead with the criminally minded-and the media's willingness to play along-has rendered the discussion of today's political power plays meaningless.

In 2013, Harry Reid, then Senate majority leader, dropped the "Nuclear option," removing "a long-standing Senate rule, dropping the number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster from 60 to a simple majority for executive appointments and most judicial nominations." While Reid left the 60-vote supermajority requirement in place for Supreme Court justices, when Republicans gained control, McConnell, who had warned Reid that he would regret the decision, "Used the precedent of Reid's decision to lower the vote threshold for the confirmations of Justice Neil Gorsuch" in 2017.

Even stacking the courts, should Democrats retake the White House and the Senate, would remain proper, legal, and subject to legitimate consequences and counters.

The left entered an abyss in 2018 when they legitimized Ford's fraud on the U.S. Senate.

Yes, there were electoral consequences, with every "Incumbent Senate Democrat in battleground states who opposed the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination" losing his or her re-election bid.

With Ford providing a template, the left now knows it can scuttle any conservative male Supreme Court nominee by finding two witnesses to swear to decades-old claims of sexual misconduct.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/23/their-brutal-kavanaugh-smear-operation-disqualifies-democrats-demands-about-next-nominee/