OPINION:
Politically, the Democrats have much more to gain if U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh gets seated with the Christine Blasey Ford allegations unresolved. If Sen. Dianne Feinstein had divulged the information when she had first acquired it or soon enough afterward to lay the matter to rest, the Democrats would have missed their chance to delegitimize a future Supreme Court decision. However, under the new judicial standards set forth by the #MeToo movement, Judge Kavanaugh will be seated as a guilty judge, rendering any split verdicts illegitimate in the eyes of the Democrats’ base.
Why ruin a single nominee when you can ruin a whole branch of government instead?
BRAD SMITH
Rock Hill, S.C.
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