Inside Democrats’ Playbook To Destroy Republican Judicial Nominees

As a counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for more than five years, I gained a clear inside look at the tactics used by Senate Democrats to personally attack GOP judicial nominees.

For two years, Democrats continued the unprecedented filibustering and constant attacks.

As for Owen, The New York Times editorial board argued Senate Democrats should once again filibuster her nomination to stop "Extreme conservatives" from "Hijacking the federal judiciary." Owen is now the chief judge on the 5th Circuit.

A Nov. 7, 2001 memo to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., from Democratic staffers on the committee explained they must stop Estrada's nomination "Because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment." After a brutal 28 months of filibustering, Senate Democrats, fueled by underlying racist rhetoric, made Estrada the first appeals court nominee in history to be successfully stopped by filibuster.

The Democrats had their scalp: the destruction of Estrada, a conservative who could potentially have become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.

Ask Justice Alito's lovely wife, Martha Ann, who broke into tears after Democrats cast baseless allegations at her husband in an attempt to undermine his moral character before the American people.

Senate Democrats, led by Joe Biden, embarked on perhaps the most disgusting assault on a person's character we've ever witnessed in a hearing.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/01/inside-democrats-playbook-to-destroy-republican-judicial-nominees/